Background
Pierson, Christopher was born on September 8, 1956 in Maidstone, England. Son of John and Margaret (Barker) Pierson.
(Christopher Pierson assesses the evidence of terminal dec...)
Christopher Pierson assesses the evidence of terminal decline, but finds rather a whole series of deep-seated challenges to traditional forms of socialist and social democratic thinking. Above all, these problems are to be found in the political economy of social democracy and its commitment to incremental change in the context of an increasingly globalized market economy.The latter chapters of the book are devoted to an assessment of market socialism, one of the most vigorous and innovative attempts to seek to recast socialist aspirations under these quite changed circumstances. In essence, market socialism represents an attempt to reconcile new forms of social ownership with the seeming ubiquity of the market. Having outlined this position, Pierson carefully and systematically critiques it and, in the process, develops a set of distinctive arguments about the nature of social ownership, the potential of the labor-managed economy, and the appropriate forms for an extension of economic democracy.
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Pierson, Christopher was born on September 8, 1956 in Maidstone, England. Son of John and Margaret (Barker) Pierson.
Bachelor, Cambridge (England) University, 1979; Master of Arts, Cambridge (England) University, 1984; Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge (England) University, 1983.
Research fellow, U. Wales, Cardiff, 1983-1985; lecturer, U. Stirling, England, 1985-1990; senior lecturer, U. Stirling, England, 1990-1992; reader, U. Stirling, England, 1992-1995; professor political science, U. Nottingham, England, since 1996.
(Christopher Pierson assesses the evidence of terminal dec...)
School governor Brookside Public School, East Leake, Notts, England.
Married Meridee Jane Pileyton Jones, July 28, 1986. Children: Ailsa May, Lewis John.