Property-Owning Democracy: A Short History

Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 33-52

  Jackson, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

British political debates on capitalism socialism, Meade's political economy; Collective ownership and structure of the capitalist firm, crucial; Debates, capitalism and socialism, Meade's politics and Keynes's ideas; Egalitarian model of property owning democracy, history of political thought; Independence property dispersion in conflict with lived realities; Private property ownership, for a class stratified participation; Property owning democracy and radical connotations; Property owning democracy, a short history; Revisionist contesting false dichotomy, vision through three strands of policy; Tangled conceptual history, and its implications

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EID: 84864427789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444355192.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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