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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cumbers, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history.

Government ownership--Great Britain.

Government ownership.

Great Britain.

Privatization--Great Britain.

Privatization.

Government business enterprises--Great Britain.

Government business enterprises.

Physical Description:

viii, 254 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books, [2012]

Summary:

In the wake of the spectacular failure of market fundamentalism in Europe and the US, with seemingly never-ending corporate scandals and financial crises, demand grows for a fairer economic alternative.

Reclaiming Public Ownership tackles these issues head on, going 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. Cumbers argues that a reconstituted public ownership is central to the creation of a more just and sustainable society.

This is a timely reconsideration of a long-standing but essential topic. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Public ownership and its discontents

1 Public ownership as state ownership: the post-1945 legacy 11

2 The neoliberal onslaught and the politics of privatization 38

3 Coming to terms with Hayek: markets, planning and economic democracy 62

Part 2 The return of public ownership

4 Financial crisis and the rediscovery of the state in the neoliberal heartland 85

5 Public ownership and an alternative political economy in Latin America 108

6 Alternative globalizations and the discourse of the commons 123

Part 3 Remarking public ownership

7 Remarking and rescaling public ownership 145

8 State ownership, deliberative democracy and elite interests in Norway's oil bonanza 173

9 Decentred public ownership and the Danish wind power revolution 192.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781780320069

178032006X

9781780320076

1780320078

OCLC:

809617466