No Bosses
A New Economy for a Better World
Zer0 Books · Print & ebook · November 1, 2021
Providing hope and direction to sustain commitment on the path to change, No Bosses is about winning a new world.
We earn from qualifying purchases.
- Who it’s for
- Michael Albert sketches an economy organized around shared decision-making, equity, and participatory planning.
- Themes
- Participatory economics, Self-management and equity, Critique of capitalism
- Genres
- Political Economy, Economic Theory, Labor & Industrial Relations
Nearest books
Matched by what the books are about, then ordered by what their readers also loved. Most of these share its genre: Political Economy.
Inventing the FutureNick Srnicek, Alex Williams62% match
MutualismSara Horowitz61% matchAlso shares Labor & Industrial Relations
Capitalism, AloneBranko Milanovic, Branko Milanović58% match
Life After CapitalismGeorge Gilder56% match
Bullshit JobsDavid Graeber56% matchAlso shares Labor & Industrial Relations
You Will Own NothingCarol Roth56% match
Doughnut EconomicsKate Raworth56% match
Why Don't the Poor Rise Up?Ajamu Nangwaya, Michael Truscello56% matchAlso shares Labor & Industrial Relations
Start with three books, and this one can be the first.
Members get a new edition every morning: a route out from their books to essays, research and talks, with the reason for each.
Start with this bookAbout this book
Providing hope and direction to sustain commitment on the path to change, No Bosses is about winning a new world. Life under capitalism. Rampant debilitating denial for the many next to vile enrichment of the few. Material deprivation, denial, and denigration. Dignity defiled. Michael Albert's book No Bosses advocates for the conception and then organization of a new economy. The vision offered is called participatory economics.
Continue reading
It elevates self-management, equity, solidarity, diversity, and sustainability. It eliminates elitist, arrogant, dismissive, authoritarian, exploitation, competition, and homogenization. No Bosses proposes a built and natural productive commons, self-management by all who work, income for how long, how hard, and the onerousness of conditions of socially valued work, jobs that give all economic actors comparable means and inclination to participate in decisions that affect them, and a process called participatory planning in which caring behavior and solidarity are the currency of collective and individual success.
Participatory Economics
Michael Albert sketches an economy organized around shared decision-making, equity, and participatory planning.
Come here for
- The proposed participatory-economics model
- An economy built around a productive commons
Expect
- Self-management in workplace decisions
- Participatory planning grounded in solidarity
Where it sits
| Political Economy | 50% |
|---|---|
| Labor & Industrial Relations | 41% |
| Economic Theory | 32% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Comparative Economics
- Comparative Politics
- Economic Policy
- Authors
- Michael Albert
- Publisher
- Zer0 Books
- Published
- November 1, 2021
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Participatory economics · Self-management and equity · Critique of capitalism
- Reading lane
- Comparative Economics