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| Introduction | |
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| Capitalism in Deep Trouble | |
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| Capitalism and Crises | |
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| Capitalism's Instability and Unevenness | |
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| Welfare State Capitalism, 1945-1970s | |
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| Capitalism, 1970s-2007: The Crisis Building from Below | |
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| Capitalism, 1970s-2007: The Crisis Building from Above | |
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| A Digression on What or Whom to Blame | |
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| Crisis and Government Response | |
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| The Bailouts and Federal Budget Deficits | |
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| The Bailouts and the National Debt | |
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| The Bailouts, Monetary Agencies, and Monetary Policies | |
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| Crises, Forms of Capitalism, and Beyond | |
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| Capitalism | |
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| State Capitalism | |
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| What Is to Be Done? | |
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| The Major Problems of Private Capitalisms | |
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| Distributing the Surplus | |
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| Private Capitalism and Democracy | |
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| The Major Problems of State Capitalism | |
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| Key Differences between Capitalism and Socialism | |
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| Twentieth-Century Socialisms | |
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| Socialism and Surplus Analysis | |
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| Socialism and Democracy | |
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| A Concluding Parable | |
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| Workers' Self-Directed Enterprises as a Cure | |
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| What "Self-Directed" Means | |
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| Worker-Owned Enterprises | |
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| Worker-Managed Enterprises | |
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| Cooperatives | |
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| How WSDEs Work Internally | |
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| The Two Kinds of Workers in Every WSDE | |
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| Handling Technical Change | |
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| Handling Environmental Issues | |
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| Handling the Distribution of Incomes and of Jobs | |
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| Property Ownership, Markets, Planning, and the Efficiency Myth | |
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| Macro-Level and Micro-Level Transformations | |
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| Ownership of WSDEs | |
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| WSDEs and Markets | |
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| Economic and Political Democracy | |
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| Democracy in the Workplace | |
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| Containing Democracy | |
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| Democracy and Crises | |
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| WSDEs in Modern Societies | |
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| The Competitive Success of WSDEs | |
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| When WSDEs and Capitalist Enterprises Coexist | |
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| WSDEs and the State: Economic Flows | |
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| WSDEs and the State: Political Flows | |
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| Program and Personnel for Increasing WSDEs | |
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| A Federal Jobs Program | |
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| Alliances with Cooperative Movements | |
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| Alliance with the Trade Union Movement | |
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| The "Organic Intellectuals" of the WSDE Movement | |
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| A New Independent Political Party | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| About the Author | |