Towards a New Socialism
- Authors
- Cockshott, W. Paul & Cottrell, Allin F.
- Publisher
- Spokesman
- Tags
- political science , politics , non-fiction , economics , socialism , economic policy , macroeconomics , sociology , philosophy , computing
- ISBN
- 9780851245454
- Date
- 1993-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.68 MB
- Lang
- en
This book is our attempt to answer the idea that socialism is dead and buried after the demise of the Soviet Union.
The core of the book consists of a series of chapters spelling out what we believe would be efficient and democratic methods for planning a complex economy. We also examine issues of inequality and its elimination, systems of payment for labour, a democratic political constitution for a socialist commonwealth, the commune as a set of arrangements for living, and property relations under socialism.
Paul Cockshott has studied economics and later computer science at
Heriot-Watt University and Edinburgh University, and has worked as a
researcher and lecturer at the universities of Edinburgh, Heriot Watt,
Glasgow and Strathclyde. He is an Honorary Fellow at the University of
Glasgow.