The Nature Of Socialist Economics

Author : Peter Murrell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 292 pages
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Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400860869

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What are the sources of the well-known differences in the performance of capitalist and socialist economic systems? Peter Murrell argues that the Schumpeterian model has far more power to answer this question than does the neoclassical theory generally used for that purpose. The neoclassical theory focuses on the absence of a price system and the inability of a centralized system to allocate resources efficiently, while the Schumpeterian model emphasizes the rigidity of institutions and policies in socialist economies and their lack of mechanisms either to create new institutions or to identify and to foster the growth of the most efficient organizations (including multinational corporations). In a work that will have profound consequences for the analysis of economic reform in socialist economies, Murrell compares the predictions of these two models against data summarizing foreign trade performance and finds the Schumpeterian model clearly superior. Combining international trade theory and econometric techniques, the author develops new methods of comparative economic analysis. These methods provide new information on the values of eleven resource endowments implicit in trade, the degree to which the socialist countries fit standard models of trade, the effect of multinational corporations on trade, and myriad other features of economic performance. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Peter Murrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038629239

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The Nature of Socialist Economies by Peter Murrell Pdf

What are the sources of the well-known differences in the performance of capitalist and socialist economic systems? Peter Murrell argues that the Schumpeterian model has far more power to answer this question than does the neoclassical theory generally used for that purpose. The neoclassical theory focuses on the absence of a price system and the inability of a centralized system to allocate resources efficiently, while the Schumpeterian model emphasizes the rigidity of institutions and policies in socialist economies and their lack of mechanisms either to create new institutions or to identify and to foster the growth of the most efficient organizations (including multinational corporations). In a work that will have profound consequences for the analysis of economic reform in socialist economies, Murrell compares the predictions of these two models against data summarizing foreign trade performance and finds the Schumpeterian model clearly superior. Combining international trade theory and econometric techniques, the author develops new methods of comparative economic analysis. These methods provide new information on the values of eleven resource endowments implicit in trade, the degree to which the socialist countries fit standard models of trade, the effect of multinational corporations on trade, and myriad other features of economic performance. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Peter J. Boettke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 041519587X

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Socialism and the Market: The natural economy by Peter J. Boettke Pdf

Author : Makoto Itoh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349240180

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Political Economy for Socialism by Makoto Itoh Pdf

A reconsideration of socialism in the post-Soviet era based on the theoretical achievements of Japanese Marxist political economy. The origins and the various components of the broad current of socialist thought, as well as the implications of Marx's economic theories for socialism, are explored afresh. The Western debate on the rationality of a socialist economy, starting in the 1920s and continuing to the present, is reviewed and reassessed. The book further inquires into the nature, the achievements, and the character of the systemic change in the socialist economies of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China. The existence of a broad range of alternatives for future socialism, which can be chosen flexibly by the people of each society, is the message suggested by the book.

Author : Elmar Altvater
Publisher : Verso
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0860916103

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The Future of the Market by Elmar Altvater Pdf

Considers the discordant state of the capitalist world in the 1990s, drawing on both green and socialist economies. Altvater's central concern is to examine the claims made for the market, both in the history of capitalism and in the globalized market economy.

Author : Janos Kornai
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191521607

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The Socialist System by Janos Kornai Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive account of the structure, conduct, and performance of the centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe, the USSR, Communist China and the Marxist LDCs, looking at 26 nations in all. The author focuses on reform, perhaps the most important issue facing countries such as the USSR, Poland, Hungary, and China. Bureaucracy, soft budget constraints, markets, and the nature of the socialist state are the central issues that arise in the course of reforming a socialist economy. The first half of the book deals with 'classical socialism' and provides a theoretical summary of the main features of a now closed period of history. The second half deals with the processes of reform and concludes that the reform of classical socialist systems is doomed to failure as they are unable to renew themselves internally.

Author : Alberto Gabriele,Elias Jabbour
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000545487

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Socialist Economic Development in the 21st Century by Alberto Gabriele,Elias Jabbour Pdf

Over a hundred years after the first socialist revolution broke the global monopoly of capitalism, a new class of socialist-oriented socioeconomic development is coming to the fore. Capitalism is still dominant worldwide, although its hegemony is no longer undisputed, and humankind is now faced with a key existential challenge. This book proposes an alternative path to overcoming the worldwide crisis of globalized capitalism. It offers a novel, balanced and historically rooted interpretation of the successes and failures of socialist economic construction throughout the last century. The authors apply a multidisciplinary, holistic and purpose-based methodology to draw basic lessons from stylized facts, emerging in different areas of knowledge, ranging from political economy to biology, and from key national socioeconomic experiences, with a particular focus on China. The book is divided into three parts. The first is mainly theoretical and general in nature, identifying the major contributions bequeathed by the hard sciences to their social counterparts. Consistent with these findings, the authors offer a stylized interpretation of the contemporary state-of-the-art of the debate on the core concepts of economic science and advance a few elementary theories about what socialism in the 21st century could look like. The second and third parts analyze and discusses the core features of a few select experiences, which have evolved in certain countries since 1917, some of which are still unfolding. The book will find an audience among academics, researchers and students in the fields of economics, political science, history, and geography, as well as, policy makers, particularly in developing countries.

Author : Caroline Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Natural history
ISBN : CORNELL:31924032269460

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Nature Talks on Economics by Caroline Nelson Pdf

Author : Kohei Saito
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781583676400

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Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism by Kohei Saito Pdf

"Delving into Karl Marx's central works as well as his natural scientific notebooks, published only recently and still being translated, [the author] argues that Karl Marx actually saw the environment crisis embedded in captialism. [The book] shows us that Marx has given us more than we once thought, that we can now come closer to finishing Marx's critique, and to building a sustainable ecosocialist world."--Page [4] of cover.

Author : Ludwig Von Mises
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Socialism
ISBN : 1933550511

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Socialism by Ludwig Von Mises Pdf

The cover is from a Greek portrayal of the reality of war -- a fitting portrayal too of life under socialism, in which brute force is the only way to secure control over resources essential to life. This edition is the original as published by Yale University, the edition that introduce to American audiences the first thorough and scientific demolition of what was and is one of the great delusions in the history of the world. This masterwork is much more than a refutation of the economics of socialism (although on that front, nothing else compares). It is also a critique of the implicit religious doctrines behind Western socialist thinking, a cultural critique of socialist teaching on sex and marriage, an examination of the implications of radical human inequality, an attack on war, socialism, and refutation of collectivist methodology. In short, Mises set out to refute socialism, and instead yanked out the collectivist mentality from its very roots. For that reason, Socialism led dozens of famous intellectuals, including a young F.A. Hayek, into a crisis of faith and a realist/libertarian political orientation. All the collectivist literature combined cannot equal the intellectual achievement of this one volume. The contents of this volume include: Foreword by F. A. Hayek Introduction Part I. Liberalism and Socialism 1. Ownership 2. Socialism 3. The Social Order and the Political Constitution 4. The Social Order and the Family Part II. The Economics of a Socialist Community Section I. The Economics of an Isolated Socialist Community 5. The Nature of Economic Activity 6. The Organization of Production Under Socialism 7. The Distribution of Income 8. The Socialist Community Under Stationary Conditions 9. The Position of the Individual Under Socialism 10. Socialism Under Dynamic Conditions 11. The Impracticability of Socialism Section II. The Foreign Relations of a Socialist Community 12. National Socialism and World Socialism 13. The Problem of Migration Under Socialism 14. Foreign Trade Under Socialism Section III. Particular Forms of Socialism and Pseudo-Socialism 15. Particular Forms of Socialism 16. Pseudo-Socialist Systems Part III. The Alleged Inevitability of Socialism Section I. Social Evolution 17. Socialistic Chiliasm 18. Society 19. Conflict as a Factor in Social Evolution 20. The Clash of Class Interests and the Class War 21. The Materialist Conception of History Section II. The Concentration of Capital and the Formation of Monopolies as Preliminary Steps to Socialism 22. The Problem 23. The Concentration of Establishments 24. The Concentration of Enterprises 25. The Concentration of Fortunes 26. Monopoly and Its Effects Part IV. Socialism as a Moral Imperative 27. Socialism and Ethics 28. Socialism as an Emanation of Asceticism 29. Christianity and Socialism 30. Ethical Socialism, Especially That of the New Criticism 31. Economic Democracy 32. Capitalist Ethics Part V. Destructionism 33. The Motive Powers of Destructionism 34. The Methods of Destructionism 35. Overcoming Destructionism Conclusion: The Historical Significance of Modern Socialism Epilogue

Author : Makoto Itō
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 031212564X

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Political Economy for Socialism by Makoto Itō Pdf

Is Socialism a day-dream? The present book aims at tackling this vital question for our post-Soviet era. The author explores afresh the origins and the character of the various components of the broad current of socialist thought, and reconsiders the implications which Marx's economic theories have for socialism. The Western debate on the rationality of a socialist economy, which started in the 1920s and continues to the present, is reviewed and reassessed. The book further inquires into the nature, the achievements and the systemic change in the socialist economies of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China. The author bases his views on these issues on the approach of the Japanese Uno School, as he also did in his previous contributions to Marxist economic theories. The message of the book is that there exists a broad range of future socialist alternatives, and the people of each society can choose flexibly among them.

Author : János Kornai
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199334766

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Dynamism, Rivalry, and the Surplus Economy by János Kornai Pdf

In this book, János Kornai examines capitalism as an economic system and in comparison to socialism. The two essays of this book will explore these differing ideologies on macro and micro levels, ending with definitive explanations of how the systems work and how they develop.

Author : László Szamuely
Publisher : International Publications Service
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015008387147

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First Models of the Socialist Economic Systems by László Szamuely Pdf

Monograph on early socialist economic system in the USSR - considers the political ideology and theoretical bases of communism during the civil war in the historical perspective of the new economic policy introduced in 1921. References.

Author : Paul Cockshott
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583677780

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How the World Works by Paul Cockshott Pdf

A sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even fewer possess the intellectual scope needed to address science and economics at a macro as well as a micro level. But Paul Cockshott, using the dual lenses of Marxist economics and technological advance, has managed to pull off a stunningly acute critical perspective of human history, from pre-agricultural societies to the present. In How the World Works, Cockshott connects scientific, economic, and societal strands to produce a sweeping and detailed work of historical analysis. This book will astound readers of all backgrounds and ages; it will also will engage scholars of history, science, and economics for years to come.

Author : Qingzhi Huan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789048137459

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Eco-socialism as Politics by Qingzhi Huan Pdf

This volume consists of analyses by experts from both the West and the East on the up-to-date development of Eco-socialism as a red-green politics within the context of capitalist globalisation. It investigates whether and/or in what sense Eco-socialism can offer a better explanation to the causes of ecological problems than the other Green discourses - such as deep ecology and ecological modernisation theory, and thus has more contributions to make in dealing with the deteriorating ecological crisis throughout the world.