David Schweickart (born 1942) is an

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and

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. He holds a BS in

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from

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, a

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in Mathematics from

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, and a PhD in

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from

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. He currently is

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of Philosophy at Loyola University

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. He has taught at Loyola since 1975. He was a visiting professor of mathematics at the

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from 1969 to 1970, and a visiting professor of philosophy at the

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from 1986 to 1987. He has also lectured in

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, and the

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, as well as throughout the

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. In 1999, Schweickart was named Faculty Member of the Year at

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. He is an editor and contributing writer t
SolidarityEconomy.net
an online journal dedicated to

economic democracy Economic democracy is a socioeconomic philosophy that proposes to shift decision-making power from corporate managers and corporate shareholders to a larger group of public stakeholders that includes workers, customers, suppliers, neighbou ...

Economic democracy

In ''After Capitalism'' and other works, Schweickart has developed the model of

market socialism Market socialism is a type of economic system involving the public, cooperative, or social ownership of the means of production in the framework of a market economy, or one that contains a mix of worker-owned, nationalized, and privately owned ...

he refers to as "

". In his own words, "Economic Democracy is a market economy." It embodies several key ideas: * Workplace self-management, including election of supervisors * Management of capital investment by a form of

public banking A public bank is a bank, a financial institution, in which a state, municipality, or public actors are the owners. It is an enterprise under government control.

* A market for goods,

raw material A raw material, also known as a feedstock, unprocessed material, or primary commodity, is a basic material that is used to produce goods, finished goods, energy, or intermediate materials that are feedstock for future finished products. As feeds ...

s, instruments of production, etc. * Protectionism to enforce trade equality between nations The firms and factories are owned by society and managed by the workers. These enterprises, so managed, compete in markets to sell their goods.

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is shared by the workers. Each enterprise is taxed for the capital they employ, and that tax is distributed to public

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s, who fund expansion of existing and new industry.

Critiques

In 2006, Schweickart wrote a detailed critique of

participatory economics Participatory economics, often abbreviated Parecon, is an economic system based on participatory decision making as the primary economic mechanism for allocation in society. In the system, the say in decision-making is proportional to the impa ...

, called ''Nonsense on Stilts: Michael Albert's Parecon''. He claimed three fundamental features of the economic system are flawed.

Published works

* ''After Capitalism'' (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002) - * ''Market Socialism: The Debate Among Socialists'', with Bertell Ollman, Hillel Ticktin and James Lawler (Routledge, 1998) * ''Against Capitalism'' (Cambridge University Press, 1993; Spanish translation, 1997; Chinese translation, 2003) * ''Capitalism or Worker Control? An Ethical and Economic Appraisal'' (Praeger, 1980)

References

External links

Schweickart's faculty homepage
at Loyola University Chicago
The National Cooperative Grocers Association
��An organization of cooperatively owned food stores. Cooperators hold economic democracy to be a key element of their movement.
SolidarityEconomy.net
��An online journal of radical social change that features David Schweickart's works and other writings on economic democracy and leftist politics.
"After Capitalism" in Facebook
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Economic democracy

Critiques

Published works

See also

References

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