"Bruno Jossa expertly illustrates that the creation of a system of cooperative firms is tantamount to a revolution giving rise to a new production mode capable of reversing the existing relationship between capital and labour. The book also demonstrates a revolution enacted by peaceful and...

This book is highly relevant to current debates on market socialism and to the continuing problems of Eastern European countries as they reform their economies. It is a work of original scholarship by two economists who were involved as experts in the reform of the Polish economy in the 1950s...