Title:
The economics of feasible socialism
Author:
Nove, Alec.
ISBN:
9781136031045
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 244 pages)
Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; A Note on the Notes; Introduction Socialism -- Why?; Part 1 The Legacy of Marx; What Did Marx Mean by Socialism?; Abundance, Scarcity and the New Man; The Law of Value under Socialism; A Digression on Marxian Economics; Sancta Simplicitas; The Ex Ante Illusion; Quality and Quantity; Division of Labour; Material and Moral Incentives; The Proletariat and Productive Labour; The Legacy of Marx: Some Conclusions; Addendum: More on Human Psychology and 'Reductionism'; Part 2 Socialism and the Soviet Experience; Introduction.
Externalities and 'Internalities'Shortages and the Sellers' Market; Plan Indicators and the Evaluation of Performance; The 'Curse of Scale', Innovation and Bureaucratic Fragmentation; Is It Planning?; Class Structure, Labour, Wages and Trade Unions; Agriculture and the Peasants; Investment Decisions and Criteria in Theory and Practice; Prices in Theory and Practice; Mathematical Methods and Programming; Growth and Full Employment; Foreign Trade; The Cost of What Is Missing; Conclusion: Centralised Planning and Democratic Socialism; A Shon Digression on 'Ideology'
Part 3 Reform Models: Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland, ChinaSome 'Revisionist' Critiques; The Hungarian Reform; Yugoslavia and Workers' Self-Management; Private Agriculture in Yugoslavia and Poland: Peasants and Farmers; The Polish Experience: the Road to Catastrophe; China: Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution and Reform; Part 4 Transition; Some Introductory Remarks; Transition I: From Capitalism to Socialism; Some Thoughts on Nationalisation; Transition II: From 'Socialism' to Socialism; 'Developmental Socialism'; Part 5 Feasible Socialism; Some Social-Political Assumptions.
Enterprises, Markets and CompetitionPrices, Profits and Theory of Value; Division of Labour, Income Differentials and Self-Management; Investments and Growth; Foreign Trade; The Economic Role of Democratic Politics; Is It Socialism?; Conclusion; Appendix 1: On Contradiction; Appendix 2: Two Critiques; Appendix 3: A Note on Utopia; Name Index; Subject Index.
Abstract:
This book is not an anti-socialist treatise; on the contrary, Nove seeks to identify and define a 'feasible socialism', conceivable in the lifetime of a child already conceived, which avoids far-fetched or Utopian assumptions and the deformations of 'actually existing socialism' of the Soviet species. The final part of the book outlines a possible efficient and human socialism, and examines objections to these ideas from the Left and the Right.
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Table of contents http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780043350492.pdf