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A carregar... Market, State, and Community: Theoretical Foundations of Market Socialism (Clarendon Paperbacks)por David Miller
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David Miller makes a comprehensive analysis of an economy in which market mechanisms retain a central role, but in which capitalist patterns of ownership have been superceded. He provides a clear, coherent statement of the theoretical basis of market socialism, and justifies it as a viable political option. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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This would be mighty interesting if the author had actually constructed a plausible theoretical model of this society. But his model of cooperatives is nothing more than a brief sketch. I can't remember the last time I read a book where a central theoretical idea is left so undeveloped. Instead of working on his vision of society in detail, the author goes on to discuss a number of disparate topics around the theoretical periphery of market and state, such as consumer choice, social justice, multiculturalism, the nature of politics, citizenship and so on. Surprise surprise, none of these discussions amounts to anything because no vital links can be drawn to the author's stillborn framework for market socialism. The author invokes Hayek in one chapter and Marx in the next, but all chapters are separated from each other so no general argument emerges.
Since the author spends almost 100 pages on a "Critique of libertarianism", I should add that his reading of Hayek's "Law, Legislation and Liberty" is unfair and woefully partial in both senses of the word. Hayek's discussion of justice, which the author repeatedly refers to, is only a small part of the book. I don't understand how anyone can write a theoretical book about markets and actively refer to Hayek's work, yet fail to make any use of the most basic element of Hayek's theory: the dispersed and ordinary knowledge which comes together in markets and makes them so effective. Including this key aspect of Hayek's work wouldn't have saved the author's vision of "market socialism", but at least the hodgepodge would have been more interesting.