CONTENTS
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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… Guide 1
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