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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Phillips, Leigh (Journalist).     Subjects     Wal-Mart (Firm)     International business enterprises.     Corporations -- Political aspects.     Central planning.     Big business.     Business and politics.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Phillips, Leigh (Journalist).       by title:      The people's republi...       by call number:      338.88 P561p     Search the Web     Phillips, Leigh (Journalist).     Wal-Mart (Firm)     International business enterprises.     Corporations -- Political aspects.     Central planning.     Big business.     Business and politics.       MARC Display

The people's republic of Walmart : how the world's biggest corporations are laying the foundation for socialism / Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski. by Phillips, Leigh (Journalist). Verso, 2019. Call #: 338.88 P561p Subjects Wal-Mart (Firm)   International business enterprises.   Corporations -- Political aspects.   Central planning.   Big business.   Business and politics. Series Jacobin series. ISBN:  9781786635167 (pbk.) Alternate title:  How the world's biggest corporations are laying the foundation for socialism Description:  viii, 248 p. ; 20 cm. Contents:  Introduction -- Could Walmart be a secret socialist plot? -- Islands of tyranny -- Mapping the Amazon -- Index funds as sleeper agents of communism -- Nationalization is not enough -- Did they even plan the Soviet Union? -- Hardly automated space communism -- Allende's socialist Internet -- Planning the good anthropocene -- Conclusion: planning works. Summary:  "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 People’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."--From publisher. Other authors:  Rozworski, Michal. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 338.88 P561p Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 338.88 P561p Adult books Checked out Aug 01, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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