Is socialism feasible? : towards an alternative future / Geoffrey M. Hodgson.

"After being proclaimed dead, there is now a major revival of socialist ideology in the West. But what does socialism mean? This book shows that it is irretrievably associated with common ownership. The twentieth-century experience of comprehensive national planning with state ownership has bee...

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Main Author: Hodgson, Geoffrey Martin, 1946- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • What does socialism mean?
  • Small socialism requires frugality or markets
  • Big socialism brings stagnation and despotism
  • Knowledge, complexity and the limits to planning
  • Social knowledge and freedom to choose
  • The limits and indispensability of states and markets
  • Varieties of capitalism: the realms of the possible
  • The making of liberal solidarity.