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| Author | William Paul Cockshott and Allin F. Cottrell |
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| Language | English |
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| Genre | Economics |
| Publisher | Spokesman Books |
| Publication place | England |
| ISBN | 978-0851245454 |
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| Socialism |
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Towards a New Socialism is a 1993 non-fiction book written by Scottish computer scientist Paul Cockshott, co-authored by Scottish economics professor Allin F. Cottrell. The book outlines in detail a proposal for a complex planned socialist economy, taking inspiration from cybernetics, the works of Karl Marx, and British operations research scientist Stafford Beer's 1973 model of a distributed decision support system dubbed Project Cybersyn. Aspects of a socialist society such as direct democracy, foreign trade and property relations are also explored. The book is, in the authors' words, "our attempt to answer the idea that socialism is dead and buried after the demise of the Soviet Union."[1]
The book was covered in an article in Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2017,[2] as well as reviewed by Leonard Brewster in the Spring 2004 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.[3]
- ^ "Towards a New Socialism". ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu. Archived from the original on 2020-02-09. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
- ^ Lobe, Adrian (August 5, 2017). "Der Staat als Maschine". Süddeutsche Zeitung. Archived from the original on 2020-02-29. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
- ^ Brewster, Leonard (July 30, 2017). "Review of Towards a New Socialism? by W. Paul Cockshott and Allin F. Cottrell" (PDF). Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. 7 (1): 65. doi:10.1007/s12113-004-1036-4. S2CID 155826332. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-03-28.