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alexgmcm 's review for:
The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
by Michal Rozworski, Leigh Phillips
The book is written in an engaging and entertaining manner and is easy to read.
However, I expected it to be more about specifically how Walmart etc. do planning and how this might be co-opted in socialism.
The latter is discussed quite a bit, but the former barely at all beyond the most basic details.
There is also a lot of time spent discussing the failure of central planning in the USSR, I found this interesting and the discussion was good but it seemed a bit of a tangent to the main topic of the book and I would have preferred the space to have been used to discuss modern planning techniques and proposals.
It's a good book though - I would recommend it to others.
However, I expected it to be more about specifically how Walmart etc. do planning and how this might be co-opted in socialism.
The latter is discussed quite a bit, but the former barely at all beyond the most basic details.
There is also a lot of time spent discussing the failure of central planning in the USSR, I found this interesting and the discussion was good but it seemed a bit of a tangent to the main topic of the book and I would have preferred the space to have been used to discuss modern planning techniques and proposals.
It's a good book though - I would recommend it to others.