Varieties of Alternative Economic Systems

Richard Westra received his Ph.D. in Political Studies from Queen’s University, Canada, in 2001. Currently he is Designated Professor in the Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University, Japan.Robert Albritton is Professor Emeritus, Departments of Political Science and Social and Political Thought at York University, Canada. He is a prolific writer who has authored or edited 12 books and scores of articles in journals and book collections.Seongjin Jeong is a leading Marxian economist in South Korea. He has written widely on Marxism, socialism and the Korean economy. He is currently a Professor of Economics at Gyeongsang National University and editor of Marxism 21.

• Chapter 1) Introduction to practical utopiasRobert Albritton and Richard WestraPart ISocialism and ecologyChapter 2) Radical social democracy: a phase of transition to democratic socialism Saeed RahnemaChapter 3) Ecosocialism for a new eraPat DevineChapter 4) Ecological community: a practical utopiaAnn E. DavisChapter 5) Soviet planning and the labor-time calculation model: implications for 21st-century socialismSeongjin JeongPart IIPositive practicalities: leaping aheadChapter 6) Provisioning under austerity: meeting human needs in the futureBarbara HopkinsChapter 7) World government is a necessityRobert AlbrittonChapter 8) Alternative principles of labor: liberation from labor and liberation through workGui-yeon JangChapter 9) Building a (very) new road to socialism: Cuba in the 21st centuryAl CampbellChapter 10) South African commoning of medicines and water beyond human rightsPatrick BondPart IIINew thinking towards a new futureChapter 11) Foundations and pathways to a progressive, socialist eco-sustainable futureRichard WestraChapter 12) A posthumanist economicsKarin Schönpflug and Christine M. Klapeer