The professor of economics at the University of Amsterdam and ex-senator for the Dutch Socialist Party Geert Reuten has published a book presenting a model of a postcapitalist economy based on workers’ coops. The book was first published hardback with Brill in 2023 and is available in open access on their website. Haymarket just released the paperback version.
Here’s the abstract of the book:
What would an alternative to contemporary capitalism look like? In this book, Geert Reuten sets out a detailed design of a democratic society organised in worker cooperatives, followed by an equally detailed democratic transition to it. In Reuten’s convincing design, Workers constitute the single economic class. However, unlike in capitalism, there is no class that owns the means of production. The legal structure of worker cooperatives is such that workers have full rights to the fruits of the cooperative without owning it, and yet the state does not own the cooperatives either. Interestingly, worker councils in the economic and state domains vote on all economically relevant matters. In Reuten’s compelling vision, the free choice of occupation and of specific consumer goods is even larger than in capitalism.
The book can be bought here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2557-design-of-a-worker-cooperatives-society