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Author Brus, Wlodzimierz

Title The Economics and Politics of Socialism
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (179 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword by Maurice Dobb; 1 Some general problems of decentralization in a socialist planned economy; 2 Economic incentives, technical progress and the evolution of the socialist economic system; 3 Economic reforms and their socio-political aspect; 4 Commodity fetishism and socialism; 5 Economic calculus and political decisions; 6 Political economy and the relationship between economy and politics under socialism; 7 Contradictions and ways to resolve them; Subject Index
Summary The volume focuses on the socio-political aspects of economic transformations in the Eastern European Socialist countries. Particular emphasis is laid on the problem of interrelations between the plan and the market and between economic incentives and social consumption. The volume also examines economic and political factors in the wider political context, particularly looking at the question of democratization within industry and politics
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Subject Marxian economics.
Economic policy
Marxian economics
SUBJECT Poland -- Economic policy -- 1945-1981. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104002
Europe, Eastern -- Economic policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91005697
Subject Eastern Europe
Poland
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136504792
1136504796