Our Common Wealth

The Return of Public Ownership in the United States

Thomas M. Hanna (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2018
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-3379-3 (ISBN)

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This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of public ownership in the United States, arguing that it is more widespread, popular, and efficient than is commonly understood. -- .

Public ownership is more widespread and popular in the United States than is commonly understood. This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the scope and scale of U.S. public ownership, debunking frequent misconceptions about the alleged inefficiency and underperformance of public ownership and arguing that it offers powerful, flexible solutions to current problems of inequality, instability, and unsustainability— explaining why after decades of privatization it is making a comeback, including in the agenda of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party in Britain. Hanna offers a vision of deploying new forms of democratized public ownership broadly, across multiple sectors, as a key ingredient of any next system beyond corporate capitalism. This book is a valuable, extensively researched resource that sets out the past record and future possibilities of public ownership at a time when ever more people are searching for answers. -- .

Thomas M. Hanna is Research Director at The Democracy Collaborative in Washington, DC -- .

Foreword: On the importance of democratic public ownership - Gar Alperovitz
Preface: The return of public ownership - Andrew Cumbers
Introduction: Public ownership in urgent political perspective
1 Public ownership in the United States and around the world
2 The efficiency debate
3 Why public ownership?
4 Public ownership and alternative system models
5 Towards a framework of public ownership for the twenty-first century
Conclusion: Systemic crisis and democratic public ownership
Index -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	14.11.2018
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	299 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-5261-3379-2 / 1526133792
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-3379-3 / 9781526133793
Zustand	Neuware