Equal Shares - (Real Utopias Project) by John E Roemer (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>"Nice idea, but it doesn't work in practice." How often have socialists had this claim thrown back at them? And now, after the events of 1989, many of the Left are openly wondering what a defensible idea of socialism would be. This work addresses this question, taking as its point of departure John Roemer's model of "coupon socialism". Roemer's model aims to combine the market with a commitment to equality through a simple, yet starkly radical, proposal: all citizens would receive an equal number of coupons with which to buy ownership rights (voting, dividends) in companies. These coupons would constitute a second, separate form of currency, but could not be exchanged for ordinary money, nor transferred to other people. Not all the contributors to this collection endorse Roemer's working model of market socialism, but they are all stimulated by his foray into a "real utopia".<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>John E. Roemer</b> is the Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Professor of Political Science and Economics. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and has been a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation. <p/><b>Erik Olin Wright</b> is Vilas Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of many books, including <i>Classes</i>, <i>Interrogating Inequality</i>, <i> Class Counts</i>, <i>Deepening Democracy</i> (with Archon Fung), and <i>Envisioning Real Utopias</i>. For more information on Envisioning Real Utopias and the Real Utopias project, and to access book content, please visit realutopias.org. <p/><b>Michael Burawoy </b>is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. <p/><b>Joshua Cohen</b> was born in 1980 in New Jersey. He is the author of five books, including the novels <i>Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto</i>, <i>A Heaven of Others</i>, and <i>Witz</i>. Cohen's essays have appeared in <i>The Forward</i>, <i>Nextbook</i>, <i>The Believer, </i> and <i>Harper's</i>. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. <p/><b>Joel Rogers</b> is Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Director of COWS. His many books include<i> On Democracy</i>, <i>Right Turn</i>, <i>The Forgotten Majority</i>, and <i>What Workers Want</i>. A longtime activist, Rogers was identified by <i>Newsweek </i>as one of the 100 Americans most likely to shape U.S. politics and culture in the 21st century.
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