Socialist optimism : an alternative political economy for the twenty-first century / Paul Auerbach.
Auerbach, Paul, author.
2016
HX73 .A84 2016
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Title Socialist optimism : an alternative political economy for the twenty-first century / Paul Auerbach.
Author Auerbach, Paul, author.
ISBN 9781137563965 (electronic book)
1137563966 (electronic book)
9781137563941
113756394X
9781137563958
1137563958
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Call Number HX73 .A84 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 335
Summary Paul Auerbach's Socialist Optimism offers an alternative political economy for the twenty-first century. Present-day capitalism has generated growing inequality of income and wealth, persistent high levels of unemployment and ever-diminishing prospects for young people. But in the absence of a positive vision of how society and the economy might develop in the future, the present trajectory of capitalism will never be derailed, no matter how acute the critique of present-day developments. The detailed blueprint presented here focuses upon the education and upbringing of children in the context of social equality and household security. It yields a well-defined path to human development and liberation, as well as democratic control of working life and public affairs. Socialism as human development gives a unity and direction to progressive policies that are otherwise seen to be a form of pragmatic tinkering in the context of a pervasive capitalist reality.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction
PART I: Socialism and Central Planning
Introduction to Part I
1. Planning and Spontaneous Order
2. The Giant Firm and the Plan
3. Technocratic Planning and the Emergence of a Socialist Orthodoxy
4. Socialist Theory and Practice
5. Ironies of History: Markets, Planning and Competition
PART II: Human and Economic Development
Introduction to Part II
6. Education and Economic Growth: The Statistical and Historical Record
7. Education as a Social Process
8. The Working and Living Environment
9. The US as Exemplar and Paradigm
10. Economic Growth and Inequality
PART III Socialism and Human Possibilities
Introduction to Part III
11. Education in a Free Society
12. Equality and Democratic Control
Conclusion Bibliography.

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