CONTENTS
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3 Introduction The economic roots of the democratic crisis The retreat from democratic scrutiny in economic policy Making the case for economic democracy in the twenty-first century Notes
4 1 A Brief History of Economic Democracy as Industrial Democracy Introduction Struggles for economic democracy in the nineteenth century The growth of a social democratic labour politics in the twentieth century The Meidner Plan and the high tide of twentieth-century social democracy The convenient fiction of Thatcher’s property-owning democracy ‘Stale, male and pale’: the exclusions of twentieth-century industrial democracy Conclusion Notes
5 2 The Three Pillars of Economic Democracy Individual economic rights and self-government Democratic, collective and diverse public ownership Creating a deliberative and participatory economic democracy Conclusion Notes
6 3 Putting Economic Democracy into Practice Institutions for implementing individual self-governance and economic freedom Emergent tendencies in democratic collective ownership Practising participatory economic decision making Conclusion Notes
7 Conclusion Constructing the democratic economy A summary of the main arguments and their policy implications Mobilizing for economic democracy Notes
List of Figures
1 Chapter 1Figure 1. Income Inequality in Europe and the United States, 1900–2010: Share of Top Incom…Figure 2. Ownership of Share Capital in UK’s Quoted Companies 1963–2014
List of Tables
1 Chapter 2Table 1. Three Pillars of Economic DemocracyTable 2. A Diverse Ecology of Collective Ownership in a Democratically Regulated Economy
2 ConclusionTable 3. The Pillars of Economic Democracy: Essential Elements and Institutional Mechanis…
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