In a message dated 7/16/00 11:02:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I have read Schweickart, but you do us all a service by summarizing his
work so
well. Let's look at (1). Some cooperatives do better than others. Now
comes
time to replace a worker. What is the relative position of her/his
replacement?
Does the original worker share in the continued profits of the firm? Is the
new
worker given the same rights as the initial worker?
These are decisions that coops will make. The firms are worker self-managed.
They decide how But you are worried that the coops will exploit the workers
somehow. I am sure that could be a problem in some circumstances,w hich is
why therew ould have top be unions and labor legislation.
> What is this free/regulated market? Firms still have the incentive to play
market games, e.g. cutting back on quality to save money ... or to throw
external
costs onto society .....
>>
Sure. That is why we have government, to provide the postive externalties the
market won't (public goods like roads and schools) and to regulate negatve
externalities like pollution. The regullatred market is not taht different
from the one that operates in social democratic countriesa, except that there
is no cvapitalist class to distort the legislature or administraive process.
--jks
