DEMOCRACY AT WORK: A CURE FOR CAPITALISM

Book ID/图书代码： 11650012B52610

English Summary/英文概要： Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable relationship with the natural environment that we depend on, our society is not delivering the results people need and deserve.

One key cause for this intolerable state of affairs is the lack of genuine democracy in our economy as well as in our politics. The solution requires the institution of genuine economic democracy, starting with workers directing their own workplaces, as the basis for a genuine political democracy.

Here Richard D. Wolff lays out a hopeful and concrete vision of how to make that possible, addressing the many people who have concluded economic inequality and politics as usual can no longer be tolerated and are looking for a concrete program of action.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 企業、國家經濟高成長 卻是一群努力工作卻得不到同等回報的勞工所達成
什麼樣的社會造就這種怪現象？

紐約時報譽為“America’s most prominent Marxist economist.”
美國高人氣經濟學家Richard Wolff提出資本主義惡果的具體治療法

麻州大學經濟系榮譽教授，美國高人氣、最傑出的馬克思主義經濟學家Richard Wolff，思考資本主義為勞工帶來的種種負面影響，並提出具體解決方案。

資本主義發展已久，卻慢慢無法滿足社會所需。

- 我們有不同的才能與技術，就業市場中卻沒有能讓我們足以發揮專長的相應工作
- 無論在上班或下班的時間，我們都無法真正掌控我們的生活
- 需要工作的人數總是多於市場釋出的職缺，而且供需不平衡的狀況還越來越嚴重，貧富差距越來越大，人們的不安全感節節升高。
這些問題的原因之一，是我們的經濟以及政治無法落實「真正的民主」。

Richard Wolff提出具體解決方案，包括落實真正的經濟民主，以及讓勞工主導工作及職場，如同民主政治的基本原則：「以民為主」。而我們在改善的過渡期當中也能看到資本主義的負面影響，並致力改善。
(Eva)

Contents

Part I: Capitalism in Deep Trouble
1: Capitalism and Crises
2: Crisis and Government Response
3: Crises, Forms of Capitalism, and Beyond
Part II: What Is to Be Done?
4: The Major Problems of Private Capitalisms
5: The Major Problems of State Capitalism
Part III: Workers’ Self-Directed Enterprises as a Cure
6: What “Self-Directed” Means
7: How WSDEs Work Internally
8: Property Ownership, Markets, Planning, and the Efficiency Myth
9: Economic and Political Democracy
10: WSDEs in Modern Societies
11: Program and Personnel for Increasing WSDEs

Awards/获奖情况：“Richard Wolff’s constructive and innovative ideas suggest new and promising foundations for a much more authentic democracy and sustainable and equitable development, ideas that can be implemented directly and carried forward. A very valuable contribution in troubled times.”—Noam Chomsky

"Richard Wolff is the leading socialist economist in the country. This book is required reading for anyone concerned about a fundamental transformation of the ailing capitalist economy."—Cornel West

"Probably America’s most prominent Marxist economist."—The New York Times

“From Fox to Occupy, it seems everyone wants to hear what American Marxist Richard Wolff has to say about economics. ... He has gone from being a rare thing – an American Marxist – to something even rarer: a popular American Marxist.” - The Guardian

“Imagine a country where the majority of the population reaps the majority of the benefits for their hard work, creative ingenuity, and collaborative efforts. Imagine a country where corporate losses aren’t socialized, while gains are captured by an exclusive minority. Imagine a country run as a democracy, from the bottom up, not a plutocracy from the top down. Richard Wolff not only imagines it, but in his compelling, captivating and stunningly reasoned new book, Democracy at Work, he details how we get there from here – and why we absolutely must.” - Nomi Prins, author of It Takes a Pillage and Black Tuesday

“Bold, thoughtful, transformative — a powerful and challenging vision of that takes us beyond both corporate capitalism and state socialism. Richard Wolff at his best!” - Gar Alperovitz, Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy, University of Maryland; author, America Beyond Capitalism

“Imagine a country where the majority of the population reaps the majority of the benefits for their hard work, creative ingenuity, and collaborative efforts. Imagine a country where corporate losses aren’t socialized, while gains are captured by an exclusive minority. Imagine a country run as a democracy, from the bottom up, not a plutocracy from the top down. Richard Wolff not only imagines it, but in his compelling, captivating and stunningly reasoned new book, Democracy at Work, he details how we get there from here — and why we absolutely must.” - Nomi Prins, Author of It Takes a Pillage and Black Tuesday

About the Author/作者介绍： Richard D. Wolff is a American economist, well-known for his work on Marxist economics, economic methodology and class analysis.

Wolff received his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1969. Wolff taught at the City College of New York from 1969-1973, and teaches graduate seminars and undergraduate courses and direct dissertation research in economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

He has authored numerous articles and books and has given many public lectures at colleges and universities (Notre Dame, University of Missouri, Washington College, Franklin and Marshall College, New York University, etc.) to community and trade union meetings, in high schools, etc. He also maintains an extensive schedule of media interviews (on many independent radio stations such as KPFA in Berkeley, KPFK in Los Angeles, WBAI in New York, National Public Radio stations, the Real News Network, the Glenn Beck Show, and so on).

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