Democracy and Economic Planning [antikvár]

PrefaceAfter Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, my greatest intellectual debts are to Rudolf Bahro, Wlodzimierz Brus, Maurice Dobb, Antonio Gramsci, David Purdy and Bill Warren.I have received encouragement and support during this overlong project from many people but especially from Ian Gough, Phil Leeson, Elena Lieven, David Purdy, Roger Simon and Fred Steward.My life formation and optimism of the will are due to my mother, Frieda Brewster, the international communist movement and the Marxist tradition; to Robin Jardine, Charlie Brewster and Ann Long; to Cath, John and Mike Devine; to the Eurocommunist and women's libération movements of the 1970s; and to Elena Lieven.I should like to thank Phil Leeson, Elena Lieven, David Purdy, Roger Simon and John Thompson for reading the entire first draft of this book and David Beetham, Sarah Benton, Dave Cook, Martin Currie, lan Gough, Geoff Harcourt, Alan Hunt, Monty Johnstone, Norman Lee, Barbara MacLennan, Bob Rowthorn, John Salter and Fred Steward for reading part of the first draft.I should also like to thank most members of the Department of Economies of the University of Manchester for making possible the two sabbaticals during which this book was conceived and written and the University as a whole for the intellectually and politically exciting sub-culture it has provided over the past twenty years. It has been a strength of our university system in this period that it has been able to accommodate people following unconventional trajectories, an era now sadly passing.In addition to the above I have been helped in various ways by Jonathan Alexander, Marge Ben-Tovim, Gideon Ben-Tovim, Jude Bloomfield, Beatrix Campbell, Pete Coughlin, Pete Egerton, Diane Elson, Norman Geras, Judith Gray, Jose Green, Philip Hanson,