Chapter Outline



Part One: State Capitalist Intervention in the Market

Chapter One:

Appendix 1A. Economy of Scale in Development Economics

Chapter Two:

A. Economies of Firm Size

B. Economies of Plant Size

C. The Comparative Significance of Scale Economies and Organizational Efficiency

D. Increased Distribution Costs

E. The Link Between Size and Innovation

F. Economy of Scale in Agriculture

Conclusion



Chapter Three:

I. The Corporate Transformation of Capitalism in the Nineteenth Century

A. The Nineteenth Century Corporate Legal Revolution

B. Subsidies to Transportation and Communication Infrastructure

C. Patents and Copyrights

D. Tariffs

II. Twentieth Century State Capitalism

A. Cartelizing Regulations

B. Tax Policy

C. The Corporate Liberal Pact with Labor

D. The Socialization of Corporate Cost

E. State Action to Absorb Surplus Output

F. Neoliberal Foreign Policy





Part Two: Systemic Effects of Centralization and Excessive Organizational Size

Chapter Four:

A. Radical Monopoly and Its Effects on the Individual

B. Systemic Effects on Institutional Culture

C. The Large Organization and Conscript Clienteles

D. The New Middle Class and the Professional-Managerial Revolution

Postscript: Crisis Tendencies

Appendix 4A. Journalism as Stenography





Part Three: Internal Effects of Organizational Size Above That Required for Optimum Efficiency

Chapter Five:





A. The Volume of Data

B. The Distortion of Information Flow by Power

Conclusion and Segue

Appendix 5A. Toilet Paper as Paradigm



Chapter Six: Agency and Incentive Problems in the Large Organization



Summary



Chapter Seven:

A. The Divorce of Entrepreneurial from Technical Knowledge

B. Mises vs. Hayek on Distributed Knowledge

C. Rothbard's Application of Mises' Calculation Argument to the Private Sector

Conclusion





A. The Corporate Form and Managerialism

B. Self-Serving Policies for "Cost-Cutting," "Quality" and "Efficiency"

C. The Authoritarian Workplace: Increased Hierarchy and Surveillance

D. Authoritarianism: Contract Feudalism

E. Authoritarianism: The Hegemony of "Professionalism"

F. Motivational Propaganda as a Substitute for Real Incentives

Appendix 8A. Blaming Workers for the Results of Mismanagement

A. The Corporate Form and ManagerialismB. Self-Serving Policies for "Cost-Cutting," "Quality" and "Efficiency"C. The Authoritarian Workplace: Increased Hierarchy and SurveillanceD. Authoritarianism: Contract FeudalismE. Authoritarianism: The Hegemony of "Professionalism"F. Motivational Propaganda as a Substitute for Real Incentives

Chapter Nine:

Introduction

A. The Special Agency Problems of Labor

B. Labor Struggle as Asymmetric Warfare

C. The Growing Importance of Human Capital: Peer Production vs. the Corporate Gatekeepers

D. Austrian Criticism of the Usefulness of Unions

Conclusion

Appendix 9A. Sabotage in a London Nightclub: A Case Study

Appendix 9B. Yochai Benkler on Open-Mouth Sabotage: Diebold and Sinclair Media as Case Studies in Media Swarming

Appendix 9C. DeCSS as an Example of Media Swarming

Appendix 9D. Open-Mouth Sabotage, Cont.: Alisher Usmanov as a Case Study in Media Swarming

Appendix 9E.

Open-Mouth Sabotage, Cont.: Wikileaks as a Case Study in Media Swarming

Appendix 9F. Open-Mouth Sabotage, Cont.: Stupid White Men as a Case Study in Media Swarming

Chapter Ten:

A. New Wine in Old Bottles

B. Lip Service and Business as Usual

C. Management by Stress

D. Dumbing Down

Conclusion

Appendix 10A. The Military Origins of Quality Control



Part Four: Conjectures on Decentralist Free Market Alternative

Chapter Eleven:

A. Reciprocity

B. Privilege and Inequality

C. Specific Forms of Privilege, and the Effect of Their Abolition



Appendix 11A. Reciprocity and Thick Libertarianism

The Cost Principle

Dissolution of the State in Society

A. Revolution vs. Evolution

B. Dialectical Libertarianism and the Order of Attack

C. The "Free Market" as Hegemonic Ideology

D. Gradualism and the "Magic Button"

E. "Dissolving the State in the Economy"

F. Counter-Institutions

G. Counter-Institutions and Counter-Economics

H. The Two Economies and the Shifting Correlation of Forces

I. Privatizing State Property



Chapter Fourteen:

Introduction: Basic Goals and Values

A. Multiple Purpose Production Technology

B. The Transition to Decentralized Manufacturing

C. Desktop Manufacturing Technology

D. Polytechnic

E. Eotechnic, Paleotechnic, and Neotechnic

F. Decentralized Agriculture

G. A Soft Development Path



Chapter Fifteen:

Introduction

A. Self-Employment: Increased Productive Efficiency

B. Cooperatives: Increased Productive Efficiency

C. Innovation Under Worker Self-Management

D. Social Benefits of Worker Empowerment

E. Peer Production

F. The Social Economy and the Crisis of Capitalism



Chapter Sixteen:

A. Demand-Pull Distribution

B. Local Exchange Systems; Household and Informal Economies

C. Certification, Licensing and Trust

D. Social Services

E. Mutual Aid and the Voluntary Welfare State

F. Education

G. Healthcare

Bibliography

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