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_aHB 90 _bC814i 2017 |
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_aCorneo, Giacomo G., _eauthor. |
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_aBessere Welt. _lEnglish |
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_aIs capitalism obsolete? : _ba journey through alternative economic systems / _cGiacomo Corneo ; translated by Daniel Steuer. |
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_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c2017. |
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_aviii, 304 pages ; _c24 cm. |
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_atext _2rdacontent |
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_aunmediated _2rdamedia |
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_avolume _2rdacarrier |
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| 500 | _a"First published as Bessere Welt: Hat der Kapitalismus Ausgedient? Eine Reise durch Alternative Wirtschaftssysteme by Giacomo Corneo (c) 2014 Goldegg Verlag GmbH, Berlin and Vienna." | ||
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_aIs there a feasible and desirable alternative to capitalism? Challenging capitalism has been somewhat taboo for academic economists since the collapse of communism. And yet it remains a hot question, not just because nine years after the outbreak of the financial crisis, unemployment is still ravaging entire societies, but also because the long-term prospects of capitalism are no longer as bright as they used to be. As Thomas Piketty warns in Capital in the Twenty-First Century, we have cause to fear the resurgence of a kind of rentiers' society, where economic and political power are concentrated in the hands of a small minority of rich heirs. Is Capitalism Obsolete? provides a refreshing overview of possible alternatives to capitalism and offers a recipe for improving the human lot. Given the necessity of identifying viable alternatives, Is Capitalism Obsolete? provides an intellectual tour of various proposed economic systems in which production and consumption obey non-capitalistic rules, from Plato's Republic of Philosophers to the Christian-Social State of the Jesuits in Paraguay, and on through Morus's Utopia, anarchic communism, central planning, self-management, market socialism, and the notion of the stakeholder society. Clearly, capitalism is not without alternatives. But along with the promises of various systems, daunting problems arise when the basic institutions of capitalism--markets and private property--are suppressed. The traditional counterproposals to capitalism fail to pass a test of economic feasibility despite the shortcomings of today's capitalism. Corneo arrives at a proposal to gradually transform capitalism into a system that will better share prosperity and foster democratic participation.-- _cProvided by publisher |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aPhilosophers and failures of the state -- Utopia and common ownership -- Cooperation, rationality, values -- Luxury and anarchism -- Planning -- Self-management -- Markets and socialism -- Shareholder socialism -- Universal basic income and basic capital -- Market economy plus welfare state. | |
| 650 | 0 | _aComparative economics. | |
| 650 | 0 | _aMacroeconomics. | |
| 650 | 0 | _aCapitalism. | |
| 650 | 4 | _aEconomÃa comparada. | |
| 650 | 4 | _aMacroeconomÃa. | |
| 650 | 4 | _aCapitalismo | |
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_iTranslation of: _aCorneo, Giacomo G. _tBessere Welt. _b1. Aufl. _dWien : Goldegg Verlag, 2014 _z9783902903730 _w(OCoLC)903003223 |
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| 963 | _aAnne McGuire; phone: 617-495 8020; email: anne_mcguire@harvard.edu; bc: anne_zarrella@harvard.edu | ||
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_aMHCIP _d2017-01-30 |
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