Recasting Egalitarianism: New Rules for Communities, States and Markets (Real utopias) (The Real Utopias Project)

by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis

Erik Olin Wright (Editor), Andrew Levine, Daniel Hausman, David M. Gordon, Elaine McCrate, Elinor Ostrom, Harry Brighouse, John E. Roemer, Karla Hoff, Karle Ove Moene, Michael Carter, Michael Wallerstein, Paula England, Peter Skott, Steven Durlauf, and Ugo Pagano

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In Recasting Egailtarianism, part of Verso’s Real Utopias series, economists Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis diagnose the current malaise of the Left as a result of the obsolescence of its traditional economic models. They propose an egalitarian redistribution of assets—land, capital and housing—and draw in novel ways on markets, competition, state regulation and community governance. The lead essay in the book lays out the underlying logic of this proposal in some detail. In the series of critiques which follow it, a range of distinguished thinkers engage in lively polemic concerning the practicality and effectiveness of the authors’ scheme.
  • ISBN10 185984863X
  • ISBN13 9781859848630
  • Publish Date 17 January 1999
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 23 July 2022
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Verso