The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest

The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism (Jacobin)

Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon and other multinational corporations

For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be subjected to a plan. And yet, as Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski argue, much of the economy of the West is centrally planned at present. Not only is planning on vast scales possible, we already have it and it works. The real question is whether planning can be democratic. Can it be transformed to work for us?

An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The Peopleâ€™s Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters. With the advances in information technology in recent decades and the emergence of globe-straddling collective enterprises, democratic planning in the interest of all humanity is more important and closer to attainment than ever before.
Country USA
Brand Verso
Manufacturer Verso
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 49225929
Color Sky/Pale blue
ReleaseDate 2019-03-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781786635167

Country	USA
Brand	Verso
Manufacturer	Verso
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	49225929
Color	Sky/Pale blue
ReleaseDate	2019-03-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781786635167

The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism (Jacobin)

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