The People's Republic of Walmart
how the world’s biggest corporations are laying the foundation for socialism
$37.40
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
5 May 2019
Summary
The People’s Republic of Walmart: Unmasking Corporate Central Planning
For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free market competition. Their remarkable success vindicates the old idea that our modern societies are too large, too complex and difficult, to be subjected to a plan. For good or ill, in the 21st century, only the distributed feedback systems of the market can distribute resources.
And yet, as Leigh Phil…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781786635167 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 178663516X |
| Series: | Jacobin |
| Author: | Michal Rozworski, Leigh Phillips |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Imprint: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 5 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 207g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 16mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
Provocative and lively book. * Morning Star *Philips and Rozworski’s book is a timely exhortation to rethink the wisdom that markets always do it better. – Hettie O’Brien * New Statesman *People’s Republic of Walmart is fast-paced and provocative. It offers readers a refreshing perspective on today’s highly planned capitalist enterprises, and the prospect of a new form of democratic, transparent and socialist planning. – Ann Pettifor * TLS *
About The Author
Michal Rozworski
Leigh Philips is a science writer and EU affairs journalist. He is the author of Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts.
Michal Rozworski is a Toronto-based union researcher and writer. He blogs at Political Eh-conomy and has been published in Jacobin, Ricochet, The Toronto Star, and Briarpatch Magazine.
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