 | Rethinking Socialism: Theory for a Better Practice by Gavin Kitching
Buy used from: £1.19 A perspective suggesting that socialism needs to become a mix of good social policy and redistributive taxes
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 | The Future of Socialism by Anthony Crosland
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £8.75 Ignore the bizarre tory review, this is an excellent book, hated almost universally as a moderate for advocating a mixed economy, education and law reform as socialism, it was realpolitik before time
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 | Socialisms: Old and New by Tony Wright
Buy new: £26.59 / Used from: £14.17 Disappointing conclusions but stand alone short over view, advocating a socialism which defies traditional definitions
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 | Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies by Francis Wheen
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.01 Left wing journalism at its best, dont miss dispatches from the class war or snake oil salesmen
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 | Modern Political Ideologies by Andrew Vincent
Buy new: £23.74 / Used from: £4.50 Greatest political author there is, the chapter on socialism is absolutely essential, similar but superior to Tony Wright
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 | Socialism After Hayek (Advances in Heterodox Economics) by Theodore A. Burczak
Buy new: £17.05 / Used from: £17.57 Overview to a number of new theories from an author who takes socialism's greatest critics seriously
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| A Future for Socialism by John E. Roemer
Buy used from: £9.00 One of the earliest exercises in rethinking socialism, equality of opportunity and shareholder activism, original
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 | Looking Forward: Participatory Economics in the Twenty-first Century by Robin Hahnel
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £2.51 Albert is incredibly prolific, this is a simple introduction to socialists who want a substitute for market forces
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 | The Political Economy of Participatory Economics by Michael Albert
Buy new: £18.95 / Used from: £14.64 A more complex account of the above, includes the math
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 | After Capitalism (New Critical Theory) by David Schweickart
Buy new: £18.95 / Used from: £18.70 A successor system (with markets) to capitalism? Anathema to most ParEcon purists
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| Socialism without the state by Evan Luard
Buy used from: £32.14 A book very, very much before its time, especially good for anglo-american readers
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 | The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach by Robin Hahnel
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £11.20 Less polemical than Albert, proposals to replace markets by democratic planning altogether, good chapter on reasonable doubts
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 | Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation (Paths for the 21st Century) by Robin Hahnel
Buy new: £20.89 / Used from: £24.25 More polemical but once again permits a full airing of counterpoints, again proposals for replacing market forces altogether
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 | Mind the Gap: The New Class Divide in Britain by Ferdinand Mount
Buy new: £6.61 / Used from: £2.89 Credible class analysis from a conservative, with original proposals, considers the cultural deprivations of a more affluent society
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 | Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple
Buy new: £9.49 / Used from: £12.40 Another class analysis of a similar kind, unpalatable truths for some but dealing with entire populations traditionally excepted from socialist thinking or ignored
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 | The Welfare State We're in by James Bartholomew
Buy new: £9.46 / Used from: £6.00 Bitter and moralising "minority report" on the welfare state, a project considered indistinguishable by many from socialism
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| Beyond the Welfare State by Irving Howe
Buy used from: £2.96 Dated piece by an American socialist at pains to distinguish socialism from welfare statism
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 | The Student's Companion to Social Policy
Buy used from: £14.00 The relationship between socialism and the welfare state examined again
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 | Teach Yourself NLP (TY Business Skills) by Steve Bavister
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.90 Adman's psychology? Maybe but if you read and discuss contentious issues you should consider that not everyone communicates the same way or has the exact same understanding/psychological "filters"
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 | Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam
Buy new: £7.17 / Used from: £5.29 The poverty of social relations in affluent American society, coming to a town near you
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 | Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud (Continuum Impacts) by Erich Fromm
Buy new: £7.68 / Used from: £5.99 Are affluent societies experiencing what is commonly labelled a "maturational crisis" when experienced by individuals? Read and decide
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