Recasting Egalitarianism

Name: Recasting Egalitarianism
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New Rules for Communities, States and Markets

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The real utopias project

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In Recasting Egalitarianism, part of Verso's Real Utopias series, economists Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis diagnose the current malaise of the Left as a result of the obsolescence of its traditional economic models. They propose to rejuvenate the egalitarian project through a strategy of asset-based redistribution, drawing in novel ways on markets, competition, state regulation and community governance. In this major work on economic and social policy, the authors address the twin challenges posed by a globally integrated economy and the key economic roles now played by information, motivation, and other intangibles. They propose an egalitarian redistribution of assets-land, capital, and housing-and argue for the beneficial disciplining effects of competition both in markets and among publicly-funded service providers, pointing out that the injustices commonly associated with markets can be avoided if assets are more equally distributed. The lead essay in the book lays out the underlying logic of this proposal in some detail. This is followed by responses by critics and supporters.

Author Biography:

Samuel Bowles is an American economist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Herbert Gintis is an American behavioral scientist, educator, and author. He is currently Professor at the Central European University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Erik Olin Wright is Vilas Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of many books, including Classes, Interrogating Inequality, Class Counts, Deepening Democracy (with Archon Fung), and Envisioning Real Utopias. For more information on Envisioning Real Utopias and the Real Utopias project, and to access book content, please visit realutopias.org (site in progress). John E. Roemer is the Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Professor of Political Science and Economics. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and has been a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation.

Release date NZ

January 17th, 1999

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Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Contributors

Contributions by Andrew Levine
Contributions by Daniel Hausman
Contributions by David M Gordon
Contributions by Elaine McCrate
Contributions by Elinor Ostrom
Contributions by Harry Brighouse
Contributions by John E Roemer
Edited by Erik Olin Wright

Pages

412

Series

The real utopias project

Dimensions

155x229x25

ISBN-13

9781859842553

Product ID

3663061

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