Towards an Inclusive Democracy: The Crisis of the Growth Economy and the Need for a New Liberatory Project (Global Issues (London, England).)

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Part I: The Crisis of the Growth Economy......Page 16
1 The Market Economy and the Marketization Process......Page 18
From markets to market economies......Page 19
The marketization process: the liberal phase......Page 29
The marketization process: the statist phase......Page 36
The marketization process: the neoliberal phase......Page 48
Internationalization and the nation-state......Page 61
2 The Growth Economy and 'Socialist' Statism......Page 77
The rise of the growth economy......Page 78
The fall of the 'socialist' growth economy in the East......Page 88
The collapse of social democracy in the West......Page 100
Why 'socialist' statism failed......Page 115
3 The Growth Economy and the South......Page 125
The failure of the growth economy in the South......Page 126
The conventional approaches to development......Page 132
The ecological dimension of development......Page 144
Democracy and development......Page 146
4 The Generalized Crisis of the Capitalist Growth Economy......Page 155
A multidimensional crisis......Page 156
The growth economy and the ecological crisis......Page 164
Is there a way out?......Page 172
Part II: Towards a Confederal Inclusive Democracy......Page 184
Democracy and the growth economy......Page 186
Democracy, freedom and autonomy......Page 190
Conceptions of democracy......Page 200
The conception of an inclusive democracy......Page 221
6 A Confederal Inclusive Democracy......Page 239
Democracy and community......Page 240
The preconditions of economic democracy......Page 252
Outline of a model of economic democracy......Page 270
7 From 'Here' to 'There'......Page 290
A new kind of politics......Page 291
The transition to economic democracy......Page 304
Part III: Towards a Democratic Rationalism......Page 318
8 How Do We Justify the Project for an Inclusive Democracy?......Page 320
The myth of objectivity: orthodox 'objectivity'......Page 321
The myth of objectivity: dialectical 'objectivity'......Page 331
Beyond 'objectivism', irrationalism and relativism......Page 355
Epilogue......Page 372
Select Bibliography......Page 375
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