Towards a New Socialism
Towards a New Socialism is a 1993 non-fiction book written by Scottish computer scientist Paul Cockshott, co-authored by Scottish economics professor Allin F. Cottrell. The book outlines in detail a proposal for a complex planned socialist economy, taking inspiration from cybernetics, the works of Karl Marx, and British operations research scientist Stafford Beer's 1973 model of a distributed decision support system dubbed Project Cybersyn. Aspects of a socialist society such as direct democracy, foreign trade and property relations are also explored. The book is, in the authors' words, "our attempt to answer the idea that socialism is dead and buried after the demise of the Soviet Union."

The book was covered in an article in "Süddeutsche Zeitung" in 2017, as well as reviewed by Leonard Brewster in the Spring 2004 issue of the "Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics."

The book has been translated into Mandarin, German, Swedish and Czech.
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Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
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Mandarin
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Swedish
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