Neo-Abolitionism: Abolishing Human Rentals in Favor of Workplace Democracy by Ellerman, David

Neo-Abolitionism: Abolishing Human Rentals in Favor of Workplace Democracy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783030626785)

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Neo-Abolitionism: Abolishing Human Rentals in Favor of Workplace Democracy by Ellerman, David

Neo-Abolitionism: Abolishing Human Rentals in Favor of Workplace Democracy

$109.99
Neo-Abolitionism: Abolishing Human Rentals in Favor of Workplace Democracy by Ellerman, David

Neo-Abolitionism: Abolishing Human Rentals in Favor of Workplace Democracy

$109.99
Format: Paperback
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1: Introduction1.1: Neo-Abolitionism1.2: What is "the system" being argued against?1.3: What is the system being argued for?2: Contract: The case against the human rental contract based on inalienability2.1: Contractual defenses of slavery2.2: History of inalienability theory2.3: Modern Theory of Inalienable Rights2.4: How to (Mis)Understand Inalienability Theory3: Property: The case against the human rental system based on private property rights3.1: The misnomer of "Capitalism" and the fundamental myth3.2: Marginal productivity theory3.3: History of property theory4: Governance: The case against the employment system based on democratic theory4.1: Intellectual history of consent-based non-democratic government4.2: Intellectual history of the case for democratic governance4.3: The debate about corporations5: Summary and Conclusions5.1: Conventional Classical Liberalism5.2: Summary: Inalienable rights theory5.3: Summary: The natural rights or labor theory of property5.4: Summary: Democratic theory and the democratic alternative


Author: David Ellerman
ISBN-10: 3030626784
ISBN-13: 9783030626785
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 02/19/2022
Pages: 155
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.36d
By David Ellerman
By David Ellerman
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David P. Ellerman is an Associate Researcher at the School of Social Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a Gordon Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Stellenbosch, South Africa. In 2003 he retired to academia after 10 years at the World Bank where he was the economic advisor and speech-writer for the Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz. In his prior university teaching, Ellerman taught over a twenty-year period in the Boston area in five disciplines: economics, mathematics, computer science, operations research, and accounting. He was educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), and at Boston University where he has two masters degrees, one in philosophy and one in economics, and a doctorate in mathematics. Ellerman has published many articles in scholarly journals, as well as several books in economics, logic, mathematics, physics, philosophy, and law.

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