</image> <label>Author</label> <label>Illustrator</label> <label>Published on</label> <label>Publisher</label> <group layout="horizontal"> <header>Publication order</header> <label>Previous</label> <label>Next</label> </group> </infobox>Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective is a 2008 book written by Kevin Carson which explores the various concepts associated with organizations (such as data, information, efficiency, size, distribution, innovation, firm behaviour, costs, hierarchy, law, regulations and management) from a libertarian socialist perspective. The book also outlines how a hypothetical mutualist economy would alter how the distribution data and efficiency would change within firms.
Summary
Part One: State Capitalist Intervention in the Market
1. A Critical Survey of Orthodox Views on Economy of Scale
2. A Literature Survey on Economies of Scale
3. State Policies Promoting Centralization and Large Organizational Size
Part Two: Systemic Effects of Centralization and Excessive Organizational Size
4. Systemic Effects of State-Induced Economic Centralization and Large Organizational Size
Part Three: Internal Effects of Organizational Size Above That Required for Optimum Efficiency
5. Knowledge and Information Problems in the Large Organization
6. Agency and Incentive Problems within the Large Organization
7. Economic Calculation in the Corporate Commonwealth (the Corporation as Planned Economy)
8. Managerialism, Irrationality and Authoritarianism in the Large Organization
9. Special Agency Problems of Labor (Internal Crisis Tendencies of the Large Organization)
10. Attempts at Reform from Within: Management Fads
Part Four: Conjectures on Decentralist Free Market Alternatives
11. The Abolition of Privilege
12. Structural Changes: The Cost Principle
13. Dissolution of the State in Society
14. Decentralized Production Technology
15. Social Organization of Production: Cooperatives and Peer Production
16. The Social Organization of Distribution, Exchange and Services
External Links
- Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective at mutualist.org