Self-Management: Economic Theory and Yugoslav Practice

by Saul Estrin

Overview

The subject of self-management - of companies in which the decisions are made by the work force rather than by the managers or owners - has long been of interest both to economists and to a wider audience. In this 1984 book Saul Estrin offers a comprehensive survey of how workers' self-management has influenced industrial structure and the allocation of resources in Yugoslavia, where a system of this type has operated since the 1950s. The book will interest economists concerned with the likely impact of workers' participation as well as specialists in self-management theory and the operation of the Yugoslav economy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521143837
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/24/2010
Series:	Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies , #40
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

List of tables; Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. Economic Theory: 2. The theory of a self-managed economy; 3. The Yugoslav environment; Part II. Yugoslav Practice: 4. Yugoslav industrial structure; 5. Some consequences of self-management; 6. An explanation of Yugoslav income differentials; 7. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Yugoslav Bibliography; Index.