The Unequal Struggle?
Author: Jim Tomlinson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1982-01-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780416331608
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It Didn't Happen Here
Author: Seymour Martin Lipset
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780393322545
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why socialism has failed to play a significant role in the United States - the most developed capitalist industrial society and hence, ostensibly, fertile ground for socialism - has been a critical question of American history and political development. This study surveys the various explanations for this phenomenon of American political exceptionalism.
Marxism, Class Analysis and Socialist Pluralism (RLE Marxism)
Author: Les Johnston
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-04-17
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1317502612
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book, first published in 1986, presents a radical challenge to socialist orthodoxy, subjecting a key component of that orthodoxy – Marxism – to sustained criticism. Les Johnston argues that Marxism cannot provide the foundations for a rigorous socialist theory or an effective socialist politics. A fundamental element of this criticism is the suggestion that the problem of ‘reductionism’ which has preoccupied Marxists is a red herring. Marxism’s problem is not its reductionism but its theoretical incoherence. Marxism is not ‘deterministic’, for there is invariably an indeterminate relationship between the materialism it invokes and the forms of politics it adopts. However, materialism is an obstacle to socialist theory. The contradictions and failures of Marxist class analysis suggest that the class concept is inadequate to the demands that socialists continue to place on it. It is not merely class which is problematic, however, but the conception of political interests which is associated with it. Even recent Marxist ‘revisionists’ who dispense with class primacy are unwilling to come to terms with the question of how socialist political interests are constituted. Socialist theory has to recognise the varied forces and interests on ‘the left’, and an effective socialism will have to be a pluralistic one. This means there can be no general theory of socialism, since a pluralistic socialism has to be able to adjust to varying social conditions.
Democratic Socialism and Economic Policy
Author: Jim Tomlinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-06-20
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780521892599
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This major study analyses the economic policies of the Attlee government.
British Economic and Social History
Author: R. C. Richardson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780719036002
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Author: Jim Tomlinson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-03
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1317831616
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in1985, Jim Tomlinson charters the route of British macroeconomic policy in the post-war era. This book argues that the objectives of macroeconomic policy have not been constant; that the emphasis has shifted from one item to another over time; and that this uncertainty and inconsistency over objectives goes a long way to explaining why macroeconomics management has not been a startling success.
Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes
Author: John Scott
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 1997-02-06
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0191588830
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Large multinational corporations shape our lives to an enormous extent. How is the growth, power, and significance of big business to be explained and understood? Focusing on the issues of ownership, control, and class formation, Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes explores the implications of changes in the nature of big business, which affect both the businesses themselves, and the economic and political milieu in which these multinationals operate. Up-to-date empirical evidence is reviewed in a wide-ranging comparative framework that covers Britain and the United States, Germany, France, Japan, and many other societies, including emerging forms of capitalism in China and Russia. Unlike other specialist texts in the area, Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes relates its concerns to issues of social stratification and class structure. The first and second editions of the book (under the title Corportations, Classes and Capitalism) were enthusiastically received, and the present edition reviews new theoretical ideas and empirical evidence that has emerged in the ten years since the second edition appeared. The text has been completely re-written and re-structured, and it relates its concerns to contemporary debates over `disorganized capitalism' and post-industrialism.
Economics and Utopia
Author: Geoffrey M Hodgson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-01-04
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1134643195
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since the fall of the Berlin Wall we have been told that no alternative to Western capitalism is possible or desirable. This book challenges this view with two arguments. First, the above premise ignores the enormous variety within capitalism itself. Second, there are enormous forces of transformation within contemporary capitalisms, associated with moves towards a more knowledge-intensive economy. These forces challenge the traditional bases of contract and employment, and could lead to a quite different socio-economic system. Without proposing a static blueprint, this book explores this possible scenario.
A Bibliography of British History, 1914-1989
Author: Keith Robbins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 962
ISBN-13: 9780198224969
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Containing over 25,000 entries, this unique volume will be absolutely indispensable for all those with an interest in Britain in the twentieth century. Accessibly arranged by theme, with helpful introductions to each chapter, a huge range of topics is covered. There is a comprehensiveindex.
Economic Calculations and Policy Formation (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Grahame Thompson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-11-13
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 1317570642
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These essays develop a Marxist response to and approach to aspects of the recent economic past in the United Kingdom. They reflect issues and controversies that have arisen within economic policy debate and the economic theory associated with the debate, highlighting the problematic nature of economic policy in the period since the mid-1970s. The book, first published in 1986, develops a line of argument organized around issues of ‘calculation’, thus challenging the orthodox Marxist framework and presenting a neo-Marxist analysis.
