The People’s Republic of Wal Mart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism By: Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski [Audiobook]

Author: Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon, and other multinational corporations.

For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be subjected to a plan. And yet, as Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski argue, much of the economy of the West is centrally planned at present. Not only is planning on vast scales possible, we already have it and it works. The real question is whether planning can be democratic. Can it be transformed to work for us?

An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People’s Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters. With the advances in information technology in recent decades and the emergence of globe-straddling collective enterprises, democratic planning in the interest of all humanity is more important and closer to attainment than ever before.

28M	Chapter 01.mp3
49M	Chapter 02.mp3
49M	Chapter 03.mp3
41M	Chapter 04.mp3
43M	Chapter 05.mp3
41M	Chapter 06.mp3
58M	Chapter 07.mp3
53M	Chapter 08.mp3
33M	Chapter 09.mp3
15M	Chapter 10.mp3
12M	Chapter 11.mp3
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417M	total