Property-owning democracy, market socialism and workplace democracy

IF 1.6 Q2 ECONOMICS

REVIEW OF SOCIAL ECONOMY Pub Date : 2021-01-14 DOI:10.1080/00346764.2020.1854333

C. Neuhäuser

引用次数: 3

Abstract

The paper discusses why on the one hand William Edmundson thinks that market socialism is superior to property-owning democracy, while on the other hand Alan Thomas thinks that an egalitarian version of property-owning democracy is superior to market socialism. For the purpose of this discussion, the concepts of property-owning democracy and market socialism are systematized and it is argued that those concepts, as understood by Rawls, do not exhaust the list of possible alternatives to capitalism and state socialism. Economic democracy, understood as mandatory workplace democracy, will be introduced as a middle ground, somewhat closer to market socialism than property-owning democracy. Against this background, it is argued that questions of transition and stability are important for deciding between these regimes and the importance of two realistic constraints in making this choice, namely egoism of powerful agents and path-dependency in institutional design, is highlighted.

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所有制民主、市场社会主义和职场民主

本文讨论了为什么一方面威廉·埃德蒙森认为市场社会主义优于拥有财产的民主，而另一方面艾伦·托马斯认为拥有财产的平等民主优于市场社会主义。为了这个讨论的目的，拥有财产的民主和市场社会主义的概念是系统化的，并且有人认为，正如罗尔斯所理解的，这些概念并没有耗尽资本主义和国家社会主义的可能替代品的清单。经济民主，被理解为强制性的工作场所民主，将作为一种中间立场引入，与拥有财产的民主相比，更接近市场社会主义。在这种背景下，有人认为，过渡和稳定问题对于在这些制度之间做出决定很重要，并强调了做出这一选择的两个现实制约因素的重要性，即强大主体的利己主义和制度设计中的路径依赖。

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REVIEW OF SOCIAL ECONOMY ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

2.60

自引率

10.00%

发文量

期刊介绍： For over sixty-five years, the Review of Social Economy has published high-quality peer-reviewed work on the many relationships between social values and economics. The field of social economics discusses how the economy and social justice relate, and what this implies for economic theory and policy. Papers published range from conceptual work on aligning economic institutions and policies with given ethical principles, to theoretical representations of individual behaviour that allow for both self-interested and "pro-social" motives, and to original empirical work on persistent social issues such as poverty, inequality, and discrimination.