OrganizationTheory_ALibertarianApproach

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Part One State Capitalist Intervention in the Market
A Critical Survey of Orthodox Views on Economy of Scale
A. Cross-Ideological Affinity for Large-Scale Organization
B. Chandler, Galbraith, and Push Distribution
C. Williamson on Asset-Specificity
Appendix A Economy of Scale in Development Economics
A Literature Survey on Economies of Scale
A. Economies of Firm Size
B. Economies of Plant Size
D. Increased Distribution Costs
E. The Link Between Size and Innovation
F. Economy of Scale in Agriculture
Conclusion
State Policies Promoting Centralization and Large Organizational Size
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
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 Journalism as Stenography
1. Scott Cutlip
2. Justin Lewis
3. Sam Smith
4. Harry Jaffe
5. The Daily Show
6. Brent Cunningham
7. Avedon Carol
Knowledge and Information Problems in the Large Organization
A. The Volume of Data
B. The Distortion of Information Flow by Power
Conclusion and Segue to Chapter Six
Appendix The NHS’s IT Program as an Example of Systematic Stupidity1
Agency and Incentive Problems within the Large Organization
Introduction
A. Mainstream Agency Theory
B. Radical Agency Theory
Summary
Appendix Toilet Paper as Paradigm
A. The Divorce of Entrepreneurial from Technical Knowledge
B. Hayek vs. Mises on Distributed Knowledge
C. Rothbard’s Application of the Calculation Argument to the Private Sector
Appendix “The End of the Quarter Shuffle”
Managerialism, Irrationality and Authoritarianism in the Large Organization
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 A Blaming Workers for the Results of Mismanagement
1. Senators Were Warned of Lexington Air Controller Understaffing1
2. Dian Hardison. “I F-ing Warned Them!”2
3. MSHA Makes The “Wrong Decision” To Blame Workers For Accidents3
4. Labor Relations in the Health Care Industry for Nurses1
A. The Special Agency Problems of Labor
B. Labor Struggle as Asymmetric Warfare
D. Austrian Criticism of the Usefulness of Unions
Appendix A Sabotage in a London Nightclub: A Case Study
Appendix C DeCSS as an Example of Media Swarming
Appendix F STUPID WHITE MEN as a Case Study in Media Swarming
Attempts at Reform from Within: Management Fads
A. New Wine in Old Bottles
B. Lip Service and Business as Usual
C. Management by Stress
D. Dumbing Down
Conclusion and Segue to Part Four
Appendix The Military Origins of Quality Control
Part Four Conjectures on Decentralist Free Market Alternatives
The Abolition of Privilege
A. Reciprocity
B. Privilege and Inequality
C. Specific Forms of Privilege, and the Effect of Their Abolition
1. The Credit Monopoly
2. Artificial Property Rights in Land
3. Patents and Copyrights
4. Occupational Licensing and Safety Codes
Appendix Reciprocity and Thick Libertarianism
Structural Changes: The Cost Principle
A. Peak Oil and the “Long Emergency”
B. The Scale of Possible Savings on Energy Inputs
C. Path Dependency and Other Barriers to Increased Efficiency
D. The Cost Principle and the Work-Week
E. The Cost Principle and Local Autonomy
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
Decentralized Production Technology
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
Social Organization of Production: Cooperatives and Peer Production
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
The Social Organization of Distribution, Exchange and Services
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
Index
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