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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘With this book Bruno Jossa brings to completion his lifelong research on market socialism. Drawing on economics, politics and philosophy, he presents a modern manifesto for industrial democracy. No student and no militant should ignore it, for it constitutes the most comprehensive, scrupulous and deep model of a socialist system available to date.’ -- Ernesto Screpanti, University of Siena, Italy
‘Bruno Jossa offers a comprehensive exposition of the cooperative form of enterprise as an organisation that assigns ownership rights and governance control to stakeholders other than investors. With a great deal of literary panache, he writes in a non-technical language accessible to non-specialist readers and shows how Marx’s equation of capitalism with market has been inhibited for a long time and considers that a prospective socialist society does not imply the destruction of the market system per se, but only the abolition of the privately-owned firms. Jossa’s account will capture the attention of anyone seriously interested in the future of the market system as a viable and inclusive model of social order. A must read.’ -- Stefano Zamagni, University of Bologna, Italy
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. The labour-managed firm: an introduction 2. A model of socialism 3. Is the final advent of socialism a realistic prospect? 4. Marxism and producer cooperatives 5. On ‘contradiction’ in Marxism and the orthodox economic theory 6. Democratic firm management and the role of the state in a system of cooperative firms 7. Reform versus revolution: Struve’s critique of Marx Index
