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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Capitalism, scarcity, and economic democracy | |
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| Plan of the book | |
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| The neoclassical approach to scarcity | |
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| Scarcity and capital accumulation | |
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| The source of capitalism's technological dynamism | |
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| Economic crises and the cyclical nature of capitalism's configurations of scarcity | |
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| Scarcity and the long-term evolution of the capitalist system | |
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| Do we need to abolish scarcity? | |
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| Scarcity and the undemocratic logic of capital | |
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| A note on the Soviet experience | |
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| Scarcity, capitalist exploitation, and consumption | |
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| Is scarcity only the product of inflated needs? | |
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| Consumerism and capitalism's configurations of scarcity | |
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| Consumerism, exploitation, and economic democracy | |
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| Economic democracy and the multiplicity of social inequalities and struggles | |
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| Struggles over the profit rate | |
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| Configurations of scarcity and capitalism's cross-cutting social inequalities and struggles | |
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| Capitalism, scarcity, and households | |
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| Economic democracy, households, and the question of time | |
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| Capital and the vicious cycles undercutting economic democracy | |
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| The struggle over the working day as a struggle for economic democracy | |
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| The cultural dimension of the struggle for economic democracy | |
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| Capitalism, scarcity, and global inequalities | |
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| Global inequalities as a dimension of capitalism's configurations of scarcity | |
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| The growth of global inequalities: a brief historical overview | |
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| The struggle(s) against neoliberalism and the logic of profit | |
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| Scarcity and the deepening ecological crisis | |
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| The deepening ecological crisis | |
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| Ecological problems as economic externalities? | |
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| Political economy, externalities, and the role of the state | |
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| Externalities, efficiency, and the conflict approach to scarcity | |
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| The link between cross-cutting inequalities and ecological problems | |
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| Imagining economic democracy: two models | |
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| Post-capitalist alternatives: market socialism versus democratic planning | |
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| David Schweickart's 'economic democracy' | |
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| Albert and Hahnel's model of a participatory economy | |
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| Economic democracy and the debate on post-capitalist alternatives | |
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| The way forward: economic democratization as a strategy of reforms and fundamental social change | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Humorous Appendix: Austerity Nut and his message | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |