TINA Be Damned: Alternatives to Corporate Capitalism

I\'ve compiled references to most of the sources that Robin Hahnel mentions in this talk.

Books authored or co-authored by Robin Hahnel
Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the 21st Century, by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel (South End Press, 1991)
http://www.southendpress.org/2004/items/LookingF

Panic Rules: Everything You Need to Know about the Global Economy (South End Press, 1999)
http://www.southendpress.org/2004/items/PanicCl

Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation, by Robin Hahnel (Routledge, 2005)
http://www.akpress.org/2005/items/economicjusticeanddemocracy

Venezuala: Not What You Think, by Robin Hahenl
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/15754
Article by Hahnel, covereing some of the same topics as this talk:

The Economics of Feasible Socialism, by Alec Nove
"TINA 2"

Jules Voykoff (?)- media analysis of 5 US newspapers\' coverage of Venezuala
(could not find)

Websites about Venezuala
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/, Greg Wilpert
Left Green Weekly - articles by Federico Fuentes
http://www.greenleft.org.au/
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/

ZNET
http:/www.zcommunications.org/

Globalization Articles/Books
Robin Hahnel - Canadian Journal of Socialist Studies - Hahnel said, "email me and I\'ll
send to you" - article on why neoliberal policies have increased global
inequality, accelerated environmental deterioiration, distorted development
priorities, and dramatically decreased global economic efficiency and growth
rates over the past 20 years

Center for Economic Policy website - http://www.cepr.net/

Kicking Away the Ladder, by Ha-Joon Chang
challanging myths about how rich countries now got rich, including
Britain, U.S., and others-- it wasn\'t by neoliberalism, it was by protectionism
article:
Ha-Joon Chang, "Kicking Away the Ladder", post-autistic economics review, issue no. 15, September 4, 2002, article 3.
http://www.btinternet.com/~pae_news/review/issue15.htm
full book:
Ha-Joon Chang, 2002. Kicking Away the Ladder. Anthem Press.  
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1843310279/qid=1030373453/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/103-6106433-7539046
 
Reclaiming Development, by Ha-Joon Chang and Ilene Grabel
http://www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-Development-Economic-Activists-Policymakers/dp/1842772015/ref=ed_oe_p


Democratic planning
Pat Devine:
Democracy and Economic Planning: The Political Economy of a Self-Governing \\
Society. Pat Devine, Polity Press, Cambridge UK and Westview Press. Boulder, CO., USA, 1988

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Devine

possibilities for democratic planning:
either
1) one big meeting vision

or
2) referendum vision
Paul Cardan - wrote about referendum vision, back in 1957
libertarian socialist position, worker-managed economy. Cardan was also known as Cornelius Castoriadas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Castoriadis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialisme_ou_Barbarie

Scottish Model
W. Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell
operations system analyst and XX at Wake Forest University
Towards a New Socialism, Cockshott and Cottrell, 1993, Spokesman Books,
avail online http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/

"participatory budgeting procedures, like the kind used in Porto Alegre, or in
Kerela India"

Porto Alegre, Brazil

several links from ZCom on participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre:
The Citizens of Porto Alegre, bt Gianpolo Baiocchi (5/1/06)
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/3953
description of participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre

Let the People Decide, by Josh Lerner (7/15/06)
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/3567
article about applying some of the lessons of Porto Alegre\'s participatory budgeting in the city of Guelph, Ontario (Canada)

Wikipedia article on Porto Alegre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto_Alegre
basic info on city of Porto Alegre (does not mention participatory budgeting at all)

Kerala, India
Wikipedia article on Kerala
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala
basic info on the state of Kerala

Richard Franke - Kerala democratic planning
"world\'s leading expert on the participatory budgeting experiment in
Kerela, India"
http://chss.montclair.edu/anthro/frankecurrentresearch.htm

Power to the (Malayalee) People, by Richard Franke and Barbara Chasin (2/1/98)
http://www.zcommunications.org/zmag/viewArticle/12905
"In Kerala state, India, an elected left wing government has launched a major campaign to make village democracy a major
development mechanism."

A downloadable MP3 of this talk is available on the New Texas Radical site linked above.