Organization Theory

Draft of a upcoming book by Kevin Carson, a left-oriented 'free-market anarchist'

Many chapters are available online via http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html

Contents

Part One: State Capitalist Intervention in the Market

1. Chapter One: A Critical Survey of Orthodox Views on Economy of Scale
2. Chapter Two: A Survey of Empirical Literature on Economy of Scale
3. Chapter Three: State Policies Promoting Centralization and Large Organizational Size

Part Two: Systemic Effects of Centralization and Excessive Organizational Size

1. Chapter Four: Systemic Effects of State-Induced Economic Centralization and Large Organizational Size

Part Three: Internal Effects of Organizational Size Above That Required for Optimum Efficiency

1. Chapter Five: Knowledge and Information Problems in the Large Organization
2. Chapter Six: Agency and Incentive Problems in the Large Organization
3. Appendix 6A: Toilet Paper as Paradigm
4. Chapter Seven: Economic Calculation in the Corporate Commonwealth (the corporation as planned economy)
5. Chapter Eight: Managerialism, Irrationality and Authoritarianism in the Large Organization
6. Appendix 8A: Blaming Workers for the Results of Mismanagement
7. Chapter Nine: Special Agency Problems of Labor (internal crisis tendencies of the large organization)
8. Chapter Ten: Attempts at Reform from Within

Part Four: Conjectures on Decentralist Free Market Alternatives

1. Chapter Eleven: The Abolition of Privilege
2. Appendix 11A: Reciprocity and Thick Libertarianism
3. Chapter Twelve: The Cost Principle
4. Chapter Thirteen: Dissolution of the State
5. Chapter Fourteen: Decentralized Production Technology
6. Chapter Fifteen: Social Organization of Production (cooperatives and peer production)
7. Chapter Sixteen: Social Organization of Distribution and Exchange
8. Chapter Seventeen: Mutual Aid