A recording of the London School of Economics Ralph Miliband Programme’s lecture “”Is a democratic economy possible? Lessons from history, horizons for the future” has been published on the LSE’s YouTube channel. In this lecture, Isabelle Ferreras of the Belgian National Science Foundation, Common Wealth’s Founder and Director Matthew Lawrence and ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the European Institute Neil Warner discuss the theory, history and contemporary possibilities for creating a democratic economy.
A summary of the lecture (from the video’s description) can be found below:
Fifty years after powerful labour movements launched radical plans to democratise the economy and gain control of large businesses, what is the legacy of these efforts and what are the prospects for economic democracy today?
Join us on the anniversary of the “Meidner plan”, a famous moment in the history of socialism when Swedish unions tried to take ownership of all large companies there. As a report for the Spanish government brings renewed attention to the possibilities for economic democracy, how can we learn from the ambitions and failures of projects like this? What should plans for economic democracy look like today? And what is the best way to pursue projects for economic democracy in practice?
This lecture is jointly organised with the Programme on Cohesive Capitalism and the Alternatives to Capitalism group within the Programme on Cohesive Capitalism.
Speakers:
Professor Isabelle Ferreras
Matthew Lawrence
Neil WarnerChair:
Dr Robin Archer
You can watch the lecture here, while you can find out more about the lecture here.