Economie democracy: Meaningful, desirable,feasible?

Daedalus

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 36-45

  Blackburn, Robin ^a  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

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EID: 34548272264     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/daed.2007.136.3.36     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. I sought to address Hayek's argument in "Fin De Siècle," in Robin Blackburn, ed., After the Fall: The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism (New York: Verso, 1991).
2. Thomas Picketty and Emmanuel. Saez, "Income Inequality in the United States, 1913 - 1998," The Quarterly Journal of Economics 118 (1) (2003) ;
3. Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy, "Class and Income in the U.S.," New Left Review 30 (November - December 2004): 105-133, 112.
4. John Plender, "Broken Trust," Financial Times, November 21, 2003.
5. Robin Blackburn, Banking on Death or Investing in Life: The History and Future of Pensions (London: Verso, 2002).
6. Michael Gibson, "Understanding the Risks of Synthetic CDOs," Federal Reserve Bank, Working Paper No. 36, 2004.
7. Andrew Glyn, Capitalism Unleashed: Finance, Globalization and Welfare (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006); Robin Blackburn, "Fi
8. nance and the Fourth Dimension," New Left Reviews 39 (May-June 2006): 39-72.
9. Thomas Holt, "Marking Race, Race Making and the Writing of History," American Historical Review 100 (i) (February 1995): 1-21, 7.
10. See also Robin Blackburn, The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492 - 1800 (New York: Verso, 1997).
11. Robin Blackburn, "The Break-up of Yugoslavia," New Left Review 199 (May-June 1993): 100-119.
12. See Robert Oakeshott, Jobs and Fairness: The Logic and Experience of Employee Ownership (Norwich: Michael Russell, 2000), 448 - 493; and the website of the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation.
13. Jean Chun Oi, Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform (Berkeley: University of California Press, .1999)
14. I Angus Maddison, China's Economic Performance in the Long Run (Paris: OECD, 1998);
15. Chun Lin, The Transformation of Chinese Socialism (Durham N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006), 106 -107.
16. Marion Gret and Yves Sintomer, Porto Alegre: L'espoir d'une autre democratie (Paris: n.p., 2002).
17. I document this process in Robin Blackburn, Age Shock: How Finance Is Failing Us (New York: Verso, 2006), chap. 3.
18. The best overall account of Meidner's strategy is found in Jonas Pontusson, The Limits of Social Democracy (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992).
19. The original plan for wageearner funds is set out in Rudolf Meidner, Employee Investment Funds (London: Allen & Unwin, 1978).
20. For an account of the struggles over its implementation see Jonas Pontusson, "Sweden: After the Golden Age," in Perry Anderson and Patrick Camiller, eds., Mapping the West European Left (London: Verso, 1994), 23 - 54.
21. For a very positive assessment of the practical effect of Meidner's ideas, see Philip Whyman, "Post Keynesianism, Socialisation of Investment and Swedish Wage Earner Funds," Cambridge Journal of Economics 30 (1) (January 2006): 49-68.
22. I outline the case for a Meidner-style pension regime at the EU level in "Capital and Social Europe," New Left Review 34 (July-August 2005): 87-114.