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Labour-Managed Economies

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Labour management may be understood as a generic concept for all cases when enterprises are managed by those working in them. Institutional forms of such enterprises differ and also the degree of self-management varies. It may be expected that labour-managed firms and economies will behave differently from those run by capitalist or state managers.

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Horvat, B. (2018). Labour-Managed Economies. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_839

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