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Is the Demand for Workplace Democracy Redundant in a Liberal Economy?

From the book: Democracy and Efficiency in the Economic Enterprise

Business enterprises Capitalism Economic development
Book
Democracy and Efficiency in the Economic Enterprise

The collapse of central planning was hailed as evidence of the economic and moral superiority of capitalism over any possible alternative. The essays in this book challenge that claim...

Business enterprises Capitalism Economic development
Book Chapter
The Myth of Anglo-Saxon Capitalism: Reconstructing the History of the American State

From the book: The Role of the State in Economic Change

Capitalism
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Lessons of the Golden Age: An Overview

From the book: Golden Age of Capitalism

Capitalism
Book
Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience [paperback)

For some twenty years after the Second World War, Keynesian economic policies in countries of the capitalist West were successful in generating rapid growth with high employment...

Capitalism
Book
Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience

For some twenty years after the Second World War, Keynesian economic policies in countries of the capitalist West were successful in generating rapid growth with high employment...

Capitalism
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Lessons of the Golden Age of Capitalism

Capitalism History of economics International economic relations
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