Schweikart's "Economic Democracy" Management Model and Its Enlightenment

Abstract

David Schweickart, a professor of philosophy department in Loyola University, Chicago, USA, is a famous left-wing economist. In his exploring about where the future society will go, he proposed a pioneering "economic democracy" management model which based on criticism and reflection on traditional "planned economy" model and "market economy" model’s practice experience by Yugoslavia, Japan, Spain, etc to construct itself with the market economy as the leading factor, workers’ self-management enterprise as the kernel, social supervision and macro-control for security management. This enlightens us that when market plays a decisive role, we must handle the relationship between government and market, market and enterprise, sharing "labor process" and sharing "labor products" to standard employees' democratic participation in enterprise management to realize economic development’s new leap broadening Shared development’s scope.