Reclaiming Public Ownership: Making Space for Economic Democracy

In the wake of the spectacular failure of market fundamentalism in Europe and the US, with seemingly never-ending corporate scandals and financial crises, demand grows for a fairer economic alternative.

Reclaiming Public Ownership tackles these issues head on, going beyond traditional leftist arguments about the relative merits of free markets and central planning to present a radical new conception of public ownership, framed around economic democracy and public participation. Cumbers argues that a reconstituted public ownership is central to the creation of a more just and sustainable society.

This is a timely reconsideration of a long-standing but essential topic.