Reclaiming Public Ownership: Making Space for Economic Democracy (by Andrew Cumbers). Book Review

Reclaiming Public Ownership attempts to go beyond traditional leftist arguments about the relative merits of free markets and central planning to present a radical new conception of public ownership, framed around economic democracy and public participation in economic decision-making. Adam Larragy is impressed by the delicate balance this book achieves, in that it is able to articulate demands for economic democracy through collective ownership whilst also acknowledging the need to engage with the state in order to create and promote pluralistic forms of public ownership.