Carson Kevin S. Organization Theory. A Libertarian Perspective

Booksurge, 2008. — 655 p.Part One: State Capitalist Intervention in the Market
A Critical Survey of Orthodox Views on Economy of Scale
Cross-Ideological Affinity for Large-Scale Organization
Chandler, Galbraith, and Push Distribution
Williamson on Asset-Specificity
Appendix A. Economy of Scale in Development Economics
A Literature Survey on Economies of Scale
Economies of Firm Size
Economies of Plant Size
The Comparative Significance of Scale Economies and Organizational
Efficiency
Increased Distribution Costs
The Link Between Size and Innovation
Economy of Scale in AgricultureState Policies Promoting Centralization and Large Organizational Size
The Corporate Transformation of Capitalism in the Nineteenth Century
The Nineteenth Century Corporate Legal Revolution
Subsidies to Transportation and Communication Infrastructure
Patents and Copyrights
Tariffs
Twentieth Century State Capitalism
Cartelizing Regulations
Tax Policy
The Corporate Liberal Pact With Labor
The Socialization of Corporate Cost
State Action to Absorb Surplus Output
Neoliberal Foreign Policy
Part Two: Systemic Effects of Centralization and Excessive Organizational Size 105
Systemic Effects of State-Induced Economic Centralization and Large Organizational Size
Radical Monopoly and Its Effects on the Individual
Systemic Effects on Institutional Culture
The Large Organization and Conscript Clienteles
The New Middle Class and the Professional-Managerial Revolution
Postscript: Crisis Tendencies
Appendix. Journalism as Stenography
Scott Cutlip
Justin Lewis
Sam Smith
Harry Jaffe
The Daily Show
Brent Cunningham
Avedon Carol
Part Three: Internal Effects of Organizational Size Above That Required for
Optimum Efficiency
Knowledge and Information Problems in the Large Organization
The Volume of Data
The Distortion of Information Flow by Power
Conclusion and Segue to Chapter Six
Appendix. The NHS’s IT Program as an Example of Systematic Stupidity
Agency and Incentive Problems within the Large OrganizationMainstream Agency Theory
Radical Agency TheoryAppendix. Toilet Paper as Paradigm
Economic Calculation in the Corporate Commonwealth (the Corporation as
Planned Economy)
The Divorce of Entrepreneurial from Technical Knowledge.
Hayek vs. Mises on Distributed Knowledge
Rothbard’s Application of the Calculation Argument to the Private SectorAppendix. “The End of the Quarter Shuffle”
Managerialism, Irrationality and Authoritarianism in the Large Organization
The Corporate Form and Managerialism
Self-Serving Policies for “Cost-Cutting,” “Quality” and “Efficiency”
The Authoritarian Workplace: Increased Hierarchy and Surveillance
Authoritarianism: Contract Feudalism
Authoritarianism: The Hegemony of “Professionalism”
Motivational Propaganda as a Substitute for Real Incentives
Appendix A. Blaming Workers for the Results of Mismanagement
Senators Were Warned of Lexington Air Controller Understaffing
Dian Hardison. “I F-ing Warned Them!”
MSHA Makes The “Wrong Decision” To Blame Workers For Accidents
Labor Relations in the Health Care Industry for Nurses
Appendix B. Corporate Rhetoric vs. Corporate Reality: The Case of “Chainsaw Al” Dunlap
Special Agency Problems of Labor (Internal Crisis Tendencies of the Large
Organization)The Special Agency Problems of Labor
Labor Struggle as Asymmetric Warfare.
The Growing Importance of Human Capital: Peer Production vs. the
Corporate Gatekeepers
Austrian Criticism of the Usefulness of Unions
Appendix A. Sabotage in a London Nightclub: A Case Study
Appendix B. Yochai Benkler on Open-Mouth Sabotage: Diebold and Sinclair
Media as Case Studies in Media Swarming
Appendix C. DeCSS as an Example of Media Swarming
Appendix D. Open-Mouth Sabotage, Cont.: Alisher Usmanov as a Case Study in
Media Swarming
Appendix E. Open Mouth Sabotage, Cont.: Wikileaks as a Case Study in Media Swarming
Appendix F. Stupid White Men as a Case Study in Media Swarming
Attempts at Reform from Within: Management Fads
New Wine in Old Bottles
Lip Service and Business as Usual
Management by Stress
Dumbing Down
Conclusion and Segue to Part Four
Appendix. The Military Origins of Quality Control
Part Four: Conjectures on Decentralist Free Market Alternatives
The Abolition of Privilege
Reciprocity
Privilege and Inequality
Specific Forms of Privilege, and the Effect of Their Abolition
The Credit Monopoly
Artificial Property Rights in Land
Patents and Copyrights
Occupational Licensing and Safety Codes
Appendix. Reciprocity and Thick Libertarianism
Structural Changes: The Cost PrinciplePeak Oil and the “Long Emergency”
The Scale of Possible Savings on Energy Inputs
Path Dependency and Other Barriers to Increased Efficiency
The Cost Principle and the Work-Week
The Cost Principle and Local Autonomy
Dissolution of the State in Society
Revolution vs. Evolution
Dialectical Libertarianism and the Order of Attack
The “Free Market” as Hegemonic Ideology
Gradualism and the “Magic Button”
“Dissolving the State in the Economy”
Counter-Institutions
Counter-Institutions and Counter-Economics
The Two Economies and the Shifting Correlation of Forces
Privatizing State Property
Decentralized Production Technology Introduction
Multiple-Purpose Production Technology
The Transition to Decentralized Manufacturing
Desktop Manufacturing Technology
Polytechnic
Eotechnic, Paleotechnic, and Neotechnic
Decentralized Agriculture
A Soft Development Path
Social Organization of Production: Cooperatives and Peer Production Introduction
Self-Employment: Increased Productive Efficiency
Cooperatives: Increased Productive Efficiency
Innovation Under Worker Self-Management
Social Benefits of Worker Empowerment
Peer Production
The Social Economy and the Crisis of Capitalism
The Social Organization of Distribution, Exchange and Services
Demand-Pull Distribution
Local Exchange Systems: Household and Informal Economies
Certification, Licensing and Trust
Social Services
Mutual Aid and the Voluntary Welfare State
Education
Healthcare