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The search for alternatives to capitalism and the problem of comparative assessment of the performance of socialist and capitalist systems have inspired one of the richest and most remarkable episodes in the history of economic thought. By the mid 20th century an entire field had emerged, conceptual...
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Edward Elgar Publishing,
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| Publisher Address: | Cheltenham, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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International library of critical writings in economics ; 346. Elgar research reviews in economics. |
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| Summary: |
The search for alternatives to capitalism and the problem of comparative assessment of the performance of socialist and capitalist systems have inspired one of the richest and most remarkable episodes in the history of economic thought. By the mid 20th century an entire field had emerged, conceptualizing, theorizing, monitoring, and analyzing the largest and most consequential social and economic natural experiment in human history: Real-life Socialism. This research review focuses on the fundamental literature associated with the comparative study of socialist and capitalist systems. It features both a well-rounded inquiry of the modern history of economic thought, as well as a vibrant and critical disentanglement of the role of the economic system from the role of environment and policy decisions, as determinants of economic performance. This review will be an interesting and invaluable research resource for academics and students alike. |
| Item Description: | Chapters previously published, chiefly in serials. Pagination of original articles retained. |
| Carrier Form: | xxix, 741 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781786431660 1786431661 |
| Index Number: | HB90 |
| CLC: | F064.2 |
| Call Number: | F064.2/C737-2 |
| Contents: |
Economic theory and comparative economic systems / Basic issues in organizations / Toward a decision-theoretic approach to the study of economic systems / Socialism and incentives: developing a framework / The architecture of economic systems / LEP: an alternative criterion for socio-economic valuation / Problems of United States-Soviet economic comparisons / Industrial growth in the Soviet Union / An index-number tournament / Inventive activity: problems of definition and measurement / Comparative productivity: the USSR, Eastern Europe, and the West / Communist economic efficiency revisited / The riddle of post-war Russian economic growth: statistics lied and were misconstrued / Notes for a theory of the command economy / Dictator, loyal, and opportunistic agents: the Soviet archives on Creating the Soviet economic system / On the theory of the centrally administered economy: an analysis of the German experiment / Corporatism as an economic system / China's cellular economy: some economic trends since the Cultural Revolution / Decentralized economic control in the Soviet Union and Maoist China: one-man rule versus collective self-management / Decentralization under workers' management: a theoretical appraisal / The soft budget constraint / The "second economy" of the USSR / The administration of the Soviet price system / Innovation and central economic planning / The Soviet-Bloc foreign trade system / Do communist and free economies show a converging pattern? / The convergence of economic systems: an analysis of structural and institutional characteristics / Barriers to market socialism in Eastern Europe in the mid 1960s / The devolution of centrally planned economies / The new comparative economics / The new comparative political economy / The new comparative economics versus the old: less is more but is it enough? / Comparative economic systems and the new comparative economics / A critique of the new comparative economics / |