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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1 Noncomparative justifications -- Marginal product as contribution -- Capitalist contribution as entrepreneurial activity -- Interest as time preference -- Interest as reward for waiting -- Profit as reward for risk -- Capitalism as just because it is just -- 2 Terms of comparison -- Capitalism: Laissez Faire -- Socialism: Economic Democracy -- 3 Capitalism or socialism?: efficiency -- The efficiency strengths of Laissez Faire -- How efficient is Economic Democracy? -- A comparison: X-efficiency -- Trouble for Laissez Faire: unemployment -- More trouble: the sales effort -- 4 Capitalism or socialism?: growth -- Innovation, risk, and reward: the entrepreneurial spirit -- What kind of growth? -- How fast to grow? -- Instability -- 5 Capitalism or socialism?: liberty, equality, democracy, autonomy -- Liberty -- Equality -- Democracy -- Meaningful work -- 6 Modern liberalism -- Keynesian-liberal "Fair Capitalism" -- Post-Keynesian "New Liberalism" -- 7 Transitions -- From advanced capitalism -- From command socialism -- From neocolonial underdevelopment -- 8 Other socialisms -- Command socialism -- Technocratic market socialism -- Marketless participatory socialism -- 9 Marxian reflections -- Communism -- Marxian paradoxes, Marxian hope -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book and Author

Since first published in 2002, After Capitalism has offered students and political activists alike a coherent vision of a viable and desirable alternative to capitalism. David Schweickart calls this system Economic Democracy, a successor-system to capitalism which preserves the efficiency strengths of a market economy while extending democracy to the workplace and to the structures of investment finance. In the second edition, Schweickart recognizes that increased globalization of companies has created greater than ever interdependent economies and the debate about the desirability of entrepreneurship is escalating. The new edition includes a new preface, completely updated data, reorganized chapters, and new sections on the economic instability of capitalism, the current economic crisis, and China. Drawing on both theoretical and empirical research, Schweickart shows how and why this model is efficient, dynamic, and applicable in the world today.

In 1952 Albert Camus wrote a caustic letter to Les Temps Modernes in response to the journal's negative review of The Rebel, addressed, not to the author of the review, but to "M. Le Directeur," i.e. to Sartre. Sartre's response published in the journal ended their friendship. This article examines the deep cause of this rupture, Camus's political views moving rightward, Sartre's moving left. I examine Camus's critique of Marx and Marxism, then ask the question, "What is Marxism, Anyway?" I defend a version of Sartrean "existential Marxism" as appropriate for our time.

Viewing contemporary China from the perspective of Economic Democracy, a stylized model of market socialism featuring workplace democracy, social control of investment and an entrepreneurial capitalist sector, I argue that China is not capitalist, and will not likely "go capitalist."

In this article I summarize the basic features of Economic Democracy, a viable alternative to capitalism that is strongly preferable on ethical grounds, then explain in some detail a set of twelve reforms, suggested by the model, that could be implemented within the framework of capitalism, but would move us in the direction of a much better political and economic order.

AbstractThis article assesses the current economic crisis, why it is happening, its implications for the US role in the world and international relations, and what can and must be done to address the situation.