Economic Thought In Communist And Post Communist Europe

Author : Hans-Jurgen Wagener
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134681839

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Economic Thought in Communist and Post-Communist Europe by Hans-Jurgen Wagener Pdf

It is now almost a decade since central and east Europe saw the demise of the Soviet-style economic planning which accompanied more ot less authoritarian political rule by communist parties. The economic thought, based on Marxist philosophy, which formed theoretical underpinning of centrally planned socialist economies, was peculiar to the region, and was radically different from mainstream western thought. Written by leading east European scholars, this volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative resource: a wide-ranging overview of fifty years of economic thinking under communist rule in Europe and during the first phase of post-communist transformation. It also provides an analytical assessment of the impact of economic science on the reform and transition process. The book includes six country-specific studies, for Russia, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Eastern Germany and Yugoslavi. Each one surveys the relevant literature and its interaction with the development of the socialist and post-socialist economic system in the period 1945-1996. The studies show that, despite Soviet dominance and the shared Marxist paradigm, development of economic thought was not uniform, a finding which supports the hypothesis formulated in the introductory chapter that differences in system critique and reform thinking can explain later differences in transformational performance. Laszalo Csaba, Budapest University of Economics, Hungary; Vladimir Gligorov, Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies, Austria; Jiri Havel, Prague High School of Economic

Author : Aron Katsenelinboigen
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483154688

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Soviet Economic Thought and Political Power in the USSR by Aron Katsenelinboigen Pdf

Soviet Economic Thought and Political Power in the USSR examines the evolution of economic theory in the Soviet Union from uniformity under Josef Stalin to diversity in the post-Stalin period. The reasons for uniformity and diversity in Soviet economics are analyzed, along with the structure of this diversity, the paradoxes in its development, and the conditions under which it will continue. The connection between leaders of Soviet economics and the Communist Party rulers is also discussed. Emphasis is placed on one of the principal trends in Soviet economics in the post-Stalin period: mathematical economics. This book is comprised of six chapters and begins with a discussion on the development of the economic-mathematical trend in the USSR. The social environment in the Soviet Union is examined in macro terms, along with the role of various mutations among the economists and the institutionalization of such mutations, especially in the framework of the existing research institutes and universities. The book also considers the attitudes of various factions of economists such as reactionaries, conservatives, and modernizers toward the question of the limitation of the leaders' power and toward some areas of economics, such as problems of mathematical modeling and institutional economics, and toward the Marxist ideology. The final chapter highlights the confusing struggle among the various trends in Soviet economics and the ways in which this struggle is supported by the country's political leaders. This monograph will be of interest to economists, political scientists, politicians, and economic policymakers.

Author : John Pickles,Adrian Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134715657

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Theorizing Transition by John Pickles,Adrian Smith Pdf

Examining transformations using a variety of perspectives Theorizing Transition provides both a rich empirical map of the dimensions of post-Communism and raises important theoretical issues about how we interpret these changes.

Author : János Matyas Kovács
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781498586344

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Populating No Man’s Land by János Matyas Kovács Pdf

This edited volume opening the new series Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic Thought in Historical Perspective focuses on the concepts of ownership, the cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies. The authors’ main objective is to contribute to the still unwritten chapter on collectivism in the history books of modern economic thought. They trace the lengthy evolution of economic ideas of property reform under communism leading from the doctrine of blanket nationalization to projects of moderate privatization in eight countries of Eastern Europe and China. The comparative analysis sheds light upon the tireless attempts of reform-minded economists in communist countries to populate the no man’s land of “social property” with quasi-private economic actors such as bodies of workers’ self-management and managers of state-owned companies. For a long time, these were expected to crowd out the communist nomenklatura from its actual ownership position without challenging the primacy of collective property rights. The fact that even the most radical reformers came to the conclusion that such surrogate owners would not be able to break the power of the ruling elite only on the eve of the 1989 revolutions demonstrates the immense strength of collectivist ideas. The authors coin the term “trap of collectivism” to warn those demanding nationalization or other forms of non-private ownership today: it is rather easy, even with the best intentions, to walk into this trap but it may take long decades to break out from it.

Author : Paul Dragos? Aligica?,Anthony John Evans
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848445949

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The Neoliberal Revolution in Eastern Europe by Paul Dragos? Aligica?,Anthony John Evans Pdf

Very few studies have ventured to explore the shift in economic ideas that were such a critical factor in shaping and understanding the East European transition process. Paul Dragos Aligica and Anthony J. Evans have seized upon the potential that this crucial case has to illuminate the larger phenomenon of diffusion and adoption of economic ideas. Two different but related research agendas are developed: the study of the spread of neoliberalism as seen from the perspective of Eastern European post-communist evolutions and the study of Eastern European transition as seen from an ideas-centered perspective. Combining a distinctive synthesis of the existing data about the spread of neoliberal economic ideas in Central and Eastern Europe with an analysis of the processes at work, the authors challenge a series of misunderstandings and myths about the spread of neoliberal economic ideas. The disputed topics include: the myth of an Eastern European rush to embrace the theories and ideas that may be considered the mark of market fundamentalism ; the notion that a harsh neoliberal dogmatism was somehow imposed on the region from outside; the idea that the standardization and regimentation of economic thinking was a result of the spread of the Western way of doing economics; and the belief that the Eastern Europeans passively embraced this uniformity and standardization due to pressure from the Westerners. This unusual synthesis will appeal to scholars in economics, political science, communist/post-communist studies and new institutionalism, as well as policymakers.

Author : Frank Bönker,Klaus Müller,Andreas Pickel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742518396

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Postcommunist Transformation and the Social Sciences by Frank Bönker,Klaus Müller,Andreas Pickel Pdf

The work's major substantive themes revolve around problems of post-communist socio-economic transformations. Specifically, it explores post-communist systemic change, the role of religion and collective identity, the significance of trust and economic culture, patterns of state-economy interactions in enterprise restructuring, the context of EU expansion, the strengths and weaknesses of economic theory and neo-liberal doctrine, and the history of ideas in the post-communist transformation debate.

Author : Vladimer Papava
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Georgia (Republic)
ISBN : 9780595349159

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Necroeconomics by Vladimer Papava Pdf

Necroeconomics and post-communist transformation of economy : the political economy of post-communist capitalism (lessons from Georgia) / Vladimer Papava, c2005.

Author : Andrew Savchenko
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015050329039

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Rationality, Nationalism and Post-Communist Market Transformations by Andrew Savchenko Pdf

A comparative analysis of market transformation in Poland, Belarus, and the Baltic States, with particular attention to cross-national variations in speed and direction of post-Communist economic reforms. Andrew Savchenko focuses on historical and cultural conditions of post-Communist economic transition and their influence on economic policy formation.

Author : David A. Dyker
Publisher : Imperial College Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781860945991

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Catching Up and Falling Behind by David A. Dyker Pdf

In this collection of essays David A Dyker explores some of the mostdifficult and fascinating aspects of the process of transition fromautocratic real socialism to a capitalism that is sometimesdemocratic, sometimes authoritarian. The stress is on the economicdimension of transformation, but the author sets the economic dramafirmly within a political economy framework and a historicalperspective. Trends in key economic variables are analysed against thebackground of the struggle between different social and politicalgroups for power and command over resources. While the book pays dueattention to topical issues like EU enlargement, the underlyingperspective is a long-term one. Transition is viewed not as a set ofonce-and-for-all institutional changes or a process of short-termstabilisation, but as a historic opportunity to solve the inheritedproblem of poverty and underdevelopment in Central-East Europe and theformer Soviet Union. The book ends with a critical assessment of howeconomics, as a discipline, has coped with the challenge of thathistoric opportunity.

Author : Katharina Bluhm,Bernd Martens,Vera Trappmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136023446

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Business Leaders and New Varieties of Capitalism in Post-Communist Europe by Katharina Bluhm,Bernd Martens,Vera Trappmann Pdf

Business leaders exert extraordinary influence on institution building in market economies but they think and act within institutional settings. This book combines both an elite approach with a varieties-of-capitalism approach. Comparing Poland, Hungary and East and West Germany, we perceive the transformations in East Central Europe and in Germany after 1989 as being intertwined. Based on a joint survey, this book seeks to measure the level of the convergence of ideas among European business leaders, assuming it to be more extensive than the institutional convergence expected under the dominance of neoliberal discourse. Analyzing the institutional framework, organizational features like size, ownership and labour relations, and subjective characteristics like age, social origin, career patterns and attitudes of the recent business elites, we found significant differences between countries and the types of organization. The growing importance of economic degrees and internationalization shows astonishingly little explanatory power on the views of business leaders. The idea of a coordinated market economy is still relatively widespread among Germans, while their Hungarian and Polish counterparts are more likely to display a minimalist view of corporate responsibility to society and adverse attitudes towards employee representation. However, their attitudes frequently tend to be inconsistent, which mirrors the mixed type of capitalism in East Central Europe.

Author : Peter D. Groenewegen,Bruce J. McFarlane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Communism
ISBN : UOM:39015034404312

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Socialist Thought in the Post Cold War Era by Peter D. Groenewegen,Bruce J. McFarlane Pdf

Author : André Mommen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781136793462

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Stalin's Economist by André Mommen Pdf

This book analyses the contribution of Eugen (Jenő) Varga (1879-1964) on Marxist-Leninist economic theory as well as the influence he exercised on Stalin’s foreign policy and through the Comintern on the international communist movement. During the Hungarian Councils’ Republic of 1919 Varga was one of those chiefly responsible for transforming the economy into one big industrial and agrarian firm under state authority. After the fall of the revolutionary regime that year, Varga joined the Hungarian Communist Party, soon after which, he would become one of the Comintern’s leading economists, predicting the inevitable crisis of the capitalist system. Varga became the Soviet Union’s official propagandist. As an economic specialist he would advise the Soviet government on German reparation payments and, unlike Stalin, believed that the capitalist state would be able to plan post-war economic recovery, which contradicted Stalin’s foreign policy strategy and led to his disgrace. Thus by the beginning of the Cold War in 1947, Varga was discredited, but allowed to keep a minor academic position. After Stalin’s death in 1953 he reappeared as a well-respected economist whose political influence had nonetheless waned. In this study Mommen reveals how Stalin’s view on international capitalism and inter-imperialist rivalries was profoundly influenced by debates in the Comintern and by Varga’s concept of the general crisis of capitalism. Though Stalin appreciated Varga’s cleverness, he never trusted him when making his strategic foreign policy decisions. This was clearly demonstrated in August 1939 with Stalin’s pact with Hitler, and in 1947, with his refusal to participate in Marshall’s European Recovery Plan. This book should be of interest to a wide variety of students and researchers, including those concentrating on the history of economic thought, Soviet studies, international relations, and European and Cold War history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004493919

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Philosophy in Post-Communist Europe by Anonim Pdf

This book explores the richness of contemporary philosophical reflection in Eastern and Central Europe. Philosophers from Poland, Russia, the Czech Republic, and the United States discuss the status of democracy, nationalism, language, economics, education, women, and philosophy itself in the aftermath of communism. Fresh ideas are combined with renewed traditions as poignant problems are confronted.

Author : Ha-Joon Chang,Peter Nolan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349239160

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The Transformation of the Communist Economies by Ha-Joon Chang,Peter Nolan Pdf

The mainstream view of the way in which best to transform the communist economies was that there should be a rapid transition to a free market economy and political democracy. The articles in this book challenge this view. They do so from the standpoint of economic and political theory, and from an evaluation of the comparative experience of different reforming countries in Europe and Asia. This book represents the first systematic attempt to try to explain the dramatic contrast in outcome between reforming countries that have pursued comprehensive system reform and those that have pursued cautious, experimental strategies.

Author : Hans-Jurgen Wagener
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998-02-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134681846

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Economic Thought in Communist and Post-Communist Europe by Hans-Jurgen Wagener Pdf

Written by leading east European scholars, this book provides a wide-ranging overview of fifty years of economic thinking under communist rule in Europe and during the first phase of post-communist economic transformation.