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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785877103321

Autore

Cumbers Andrew

Titolo

Reclaiming public ownership : making space for economic democracy / / Andrew Cumbers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2012

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021

ISBN

1-350-22215-1

1-78032-370-0

1-283-60948-7

9786613921932

1-78032-008-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Disciplina

330.9

Soggetti

Economic history

Government ownership - Great Britain

Privatization - Great Britain

Government business enterprises - Great Britain

Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-243) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; About the author; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables and figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: an unexpected guest -- the return of public ownership; Part One Public ownership and its discontents; 1 Public ownership as state ownership: the post-1945 legacy; 2 The neoliberal onslaught and the politics of privatization; 3 Coming to terms with Hayek: markets, planning and economic democracy; Part Two The return of public ownership; 4 Financial crisis and the rediscovery of the state in the neoliberal heartland; 5 Public ownership and an alternative political economy in Latin America.

6 Alternative globalizations and the discourse of the commonsPart Three Remaking public ownership; 7 Remaking and rescaling public ownership; 8 State ownership, deliberative democracy and elite interests in Norway's oil bonanza; 9 Decentred public ownership and the Danish wind power revolution; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography;



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Sommario/riassunto

As the destructive tendencies of the current profit-driven economic model become daily more self-evident, there is a growing demand for a fairer economic alternative. Reclaiming Public Ownership goes beyond traditional leftist arguments about the relative merits of free markets and central planning to present a radical new conception of public ownership, framed around economic democracy and public participation. A timely reconsideration of a long-standing but essential topic.