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Democracy and Efficiency in the Economic Enterprise
The collapse of central planning was hailed as evidence of the economic and moral superiority of capitalism over any possible alternative. The essays in this book challenge that claim.
The case for more democratic forms of enterprise management is considered from a variety of viewpoints. One chapter deals with the philosophical justification for enterprise democracy. The remaining chapters are devoted to the question of efficiency, which has been central to economic debates about ownership and control. The orthodox belief amongst economists is that any shift to more democratic forms of enterprise control would be unworkable. The essays in this book provide a thorough theoretical and empirical critique of this orthodoxy.
Biography
Ugo Pagano is Professor of Economics at the University of Siena. He is the author of the book Work and Welfare in Economic Theory, together with a number of articles on related themes. Robert Rowthorn is Professor of Economics and Fellow of King’s College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of several books including Capitalism, Conflict and Inflation: Deindustrialization and Foreign Trade.