Self-management


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Self-Management


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Offers a comprehensive survey of how workers' self-management has influenced industrial structure and the allocation of resources in Yugoslavia.




Self-Management and Efficiency


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The book, first published in 1983, examined whether the Yugoslavs’ extensive implementation of their principle of self-management by small work units was costly in terms of economic efficiency. Were they atomizing their firms into inefficiently small fragments? Was the system of worker self-management appropriate only for small firms? Can a modern industrial enterprise of efficient scale, indeed very large scale, by run that way? In order to answer these questions, the author applies to large firms in former Yugoslavia the transactions cost analysis developed by the economist Oliver Williamson.




Self-management and the Crisis of Socialism


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While some conclude from the revolutions of 1989 that socialism is dead, interest in socialism continues because of persisting problems of contemporary capitalism. In this exciting text, Michael W. Howard offers critiques of liberal, communitarian, postmodern and some Marxist perspectives in order to develop a 'left-liberal' defense of a model of self-managed market socialism that includes a basic income for all. Specific applications of his view include analyses of its implications for the global marketplace, the changing nature of workplaces, and media restructuring and ownership. This work is sure to be of interest to social scientists, public policy makers, and economists as well as to feminists, ecologists, and others concerned with how market socialism is relevant to their social issues.




Workers' Participation And Self-management In Developing Countries


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Drawing on his background as an economist and a specialist on the Yugoslav system of workers' self-management, Janez Prasnikar analyzes an extraordinary amount of dispersed information on the experience with workers' participation in thirteen developing countries.




The State, Trade Unions and Self-Management


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Chapter 18 - The Prospects of Industrial Democracy in the Context of the Proposed New Educational Policy in India -- Chapter 19 - Cooperation Between Universities and Unions -- Conclusion -- Chapter 20 - Competence and Organizational Democracy: Concluding Reflections -- List of Contributors




The Fourth Wave


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1576750027The Fourth Wave foresees a radically different future.afuture in which business principles, concern for theenvironment, personal integrity, and spiritual values areintegrated. It looks toward a future in which today'scorporations serve both local and global society,advocate a redefinition of wealth, are innovators ......




Democracy and Welfare Economics


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This book is a fully revised and updated version of Hans van den Doel's Democracy and Welfare Economics. It presents the economic theory of political decision-making (otherwise known as new political economy, or public choice), providing students with an accessible and clear introduction to this important subject. The authors identify four different methods of decision-making by which the political process transforms the demands of individual citizens into government policy, and these are analyzed in turn with reference to economic theory.




Ariadne's Thread


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This book is a powerful, interdisciplinary introduction to environmental studies.