The Political Economy Of Soviet Socialism The Formative Years 1918 1928

Author : Peter J. Boettke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789401734332

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The Political Economy of Soviet Socialism: the Formative Years, 1918-1928 by Peter J. Boettke Pdf

This book presents a narrative of one of the more interesting utopian experiments in comparative political and economic history: the first decade of the Soviet experience with socialism (1918-1928). Though historical and textual analysis, the book’s goal is to render this experience intelligible, to get at the meaning of the Soviet experience with socialism for comparative political economy today. The book examines the texts of Lenin, Bukharin, and other revolutionaries, as well as the interpretations of contemporary historians of the revolution and the writings of more recent interpreters of Soviet political and economic history. Arguing that the first three years of the Bolshevik regime (1918-1921) constitute an attempt to carry out the Marxian ideal of comprehensive central planning, and that the disastrous results, which all commentators agree occurred, were the inevitable outcome of this Marxian ideal coming into conflict with the economic reality of the coordination problem that all economic systems face, the book draws clear conclusions and elucidates the air of mystery that often surrounds the subject. Offering a radical challenge to contemporary comparative political economy at the level of high theory, applied research, and public policy, this book is appropriate for students and scholars interested in Marxism, economic history, political economy, and Austrian economics.

Author : Peter J. Boettke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415206146

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Socialism and the Market: The political economy of Soviet socialism by Peter J. Boettke Pdf

Author : Alec Nove
Publisher : London ; Boston : G. Allen & Unwin
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Russia
ISBN : 0043350372

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Political Economy and Soviet Socialism by Alec Nove Pdf

Author : Alec Nove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Socialism
ISBN : 0415684927

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Political Economy and Soviet Socialism (Routledge Revivals) by Alec Nove Pdf

First published in 1979, this is an integrated selection of papers written over 12 years of Russian history, which offers a unique insight into some important and controversial issues. It discusses the ideas of Lenin, Trotsky and Bukharin, the political economy of socialism, and the problems of the contemporary USSR.

Author : Peter J. Boettke
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814786185

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Collapse of Development Planning by Peter J. Boettke Pdf

Conventional wisdom has it that government management of the economy is the means to transform a backward economy into a dynamic, modern one. Yet, after decades of international aid programs, development planning is today largely perceived as a failure paralyzed by its own bureaucracy and inefficiency. Despite billions of dollars of investment, development successes are few and far between and waste and mismanagement abounds. This book showcases a diverse range of development experiences in order to ascertain the reasons for this quagmire. Case studies of development planning in China, India, post-WWII Japan, South Korea, Africa, and Eastern Europe, and of foreign aid programs (including the Marshall Plan) illustrate the insights an Austrian approach provides toward an understanding of the failure of government development planning. While economists working within the Austrian tradition have previously addressed development issues, this volume represents the first full-length treatment of the subject from a modern market process perspective. Exploding the hegemony of the traditional development paradigm, The Collapse of Development Planning addresses one of the most pressing issues of international political economy. Contributing to the volume are: George Ayittey (American University), Wayne T. Brough (Citizens for a Sound Economy, Washington, DC), Young Back Choi (St. John's University), Steven Hanke (Johns Hopkins University), Steve Horwitz (St. Lawrence University), Shyam J. Kamath (California State University, Hayward), Shigeto Naka (Hiroshima City University), David Osterfeld (St. Joseph's College), Manisha Perera (University of Northern Colorado), Jan S. Prybyla (Pennsylvania State University), Ralph Raico (State University College, Buffalo), Parth Shah (University of Michigan, Dearborn), Kurt Schuller (Johns Hopkins University), Kiyokazu Tanaka (Sophia University, Tokyo), and Mark Thorton (Auburn University).

Author : Paul R. Gregory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521533678

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The Political Economy of Stalinism by Paul R. Gregory Pdf

This book uses the formerly secret Soviet state and Communist Party archives to describe the creation and operations of the Soviet administrative command system. It concludes that the system failed not because of the 'jockey'(i.e. Stalin and later leaders) but because of the 'horse' (the economic system). Although Stalin was the system's prime architect, the system was managed by thousands of 'Stalins' in a nested dictatorship. The core values of the Bolshevik Party dictated the choice of the administrative command system, and the system dictated the political victory of a Stalin-like figure. This study pinpoints the reasons for the failure of the system - poor planning, unreliable supplies, the preferential treatment of indigenous enterprises, the lack of knowledge of planners, etc. - but also focuses on the basic principal-agent conflict between planners and producers, which created a sixty-year reform stalemate.

Author : Richard B. Day
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : 0521524369

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Leon Trotsky and the Politics of Economic Isolation by Richard B. Day Pdf

A highly original and controversial examination of events in Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1927 in which Professor Day challenges both the standard Trotskyite and Stalinist interpretations of the period. At the same time he rejects the traditional emphasis on Trotsky's concept of Permanent Revolution and argues that a Marxist theorist is essential. Professor Day concentrates upon the economic implications of revolutionary Russia's isolation from Europe. How to build socialism - in a backward, war-ravaged society, without aid from the West: this problem lay behind many of the most important political conflicts of Soviet Russia's formative years.

Author : Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300122800

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Political Economy of Socialist Realism by Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko Pdf

Bringing together the Soviet historical experience and Stalin-era art in novels, films, poems, songs, painting, photography, architecture and advertising, Dobrenko examines Stalinism's representational strategies and demonstrates how real socialism was begotten of Socialist Realism.

Author : Peter J Boettke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134886319

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Why Perestroika Failed by Peter J Boettke Pdf

This argues that Perestroika failed as the result of the lack of understanding of market and political processes with reform processes representing

Author : Silvana Malle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521527031

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The Economic Organization of War Communism 1918-1921 by Silvana Malle Pdf

An assessment of the first Soviet economic system, comparing programmes with outsomes, and theory with practice.

Author : Jonathan Aurthur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : MINN:31951001180694R

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Socialism in the Soviet Union by Jonathan Aurthur Pdf

Author : Alex F. Dowlah,John E. Elliot
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-28
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019233936

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The Life and Times of Soviet Socialism by Alex F. Dowlah,John E. Elliot Pdf

Real-world models and interpretive perspectives on Soviet economic and political theory and practice from 1917 through 1991.

Author : Paul Dragos Aligica,Vlad Tarko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317654735

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Capitalist Alternatives by Paul Dragos Aligica,Vlad Tarko Pdf

The book's objective is to explore the challenge of thinking methodically - in a theoretically and empirically informed way - about alternative forms of capitalism. What are the most effective ways to conceptualize the existing models of capitalism that have captured the public imagination and are currently floating around in the public debate? How can one mobilize empirical analysis and theory in thinking about the realm of possibilities and about the future of economic order, but avoid the twin perils of scientism and historicism? This book is an attempt to respond to these and related challenges. First, it delves into the substantive aspect of the debate, taking a closer look at a set of particular forms and models of capitalism that are currently discussed both in mass media and in academic circles as plausible, or at least possible, alternatives to the status quo: Crony, State, Regulatory, and Entrepreneurial Capitalisms. By elaborating and clarifying those models, it engages in a heuristic exercise that leads to a better understanding of the task of conceptualizing and assessing, in a theoretically informed way, the diversity of forms of capitalism. Second, the book takes a step further, looking at the epistemic, theoretical and methodological dimensions of the discussion: What is involved, more precisely, in our classifying and theorizing of capitalist systems and their historical evolution? What is the epistemic basis for building plausible conjectures about the future evolution of an economic system? What are the logical and methodological parameters of our endeavors that deal with economic systems, or with the problem of continuity and change in comparative economic systems? Offering an original approach to the problem of alternative forms of capitalism, this book will be of great interest to scholars working in the field of comparative political economy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Marxian economics
ISBN : LCCN:68000786

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Political economy of socialism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dan Greenwood
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031303838

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Effective Governance and the Political Economy of Coordination by Dan Greenwood Pdf

This book provides a conceptual and methodological approach for researchers evaluating governance and policy in the face of complexity, and demonstrates the application of this approach across different governance and policy contexts. It fills a significant gap in the literature on governance, and proposes a theoretical focus on coordination to enable the assessment of multi-tier, cross-sector governance institutions and policy. It also introduces a range of applications for the proposed approach, including two case studies of governance and policy for the built environment and health services. The book introduces, analyses and draws from a range of perspectives in political economy, political science, policy analysis and evaluation. It also engages with longstanding debates in political economy about states and markets, which are largely overlooked by political science analyses of coordination challenges in governance. The book will appeal to scholars and students of governance, public policy and political science.