[PDF] Reforming Socialist Systems eBook

Author : Bernard Chavance
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,37 MB
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 1000306429

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In the confrontation between the two main economic systems that has marked the twentieth century, capitalism has been declared the winner–by default– over its adversary, socialism. Today, establishing a market economy has become the primary goal of the formerly socialist countries. The history of economic reform helps explain this remarkable turning point. Attempts to improve the old centralized system by expanding enterprise autonomy (in Poland, the Soviet Union, and East Germany) and more radical reforms that limited the role of central planning (in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and China) encountered social and political obstacles or had unexpected and undesired effects. During the 1980s, the idea of a socialist market economy, which had been seen as a "third way" between capitalism and centralized socialism, was abandoned as economists gradually came to support a free market rather than the dogma of planning. Through a comparative and historical analysis of change in socialist and post-socialist systems, this timely and original book clarifies the policies and pitfalls in this extraordinary transition. Bernard Chavance provides a succinct introduction and analysis of the politics and economics of Eastern Europe from the creation of the Stalinist system in the Soviet Union through what he argues have been three major waves of reform since the 1950s to the dismantling of most socialist governments in the 1990s. Exploring the link between the one-party regime and the growing rigidity of socialist economic systems, the author analyzes the failure of both incremental and radical reforms to adapt to new economic challenges, thus leading to the ultimate collapse of communist regimes in Europe.

Author : Robert Wellington Campbell
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Deals with a perfect-administration interpretation of the Soviet-type economy, the financial and macrophenomena in the administered economy, the growth strategy and growth performance in the Soviet world, the semi-reformed economy and its characteristic problems.

Author : Sasha Tsenkova
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 24,93 MB
Release : 2008-12-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3790821152

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The book explores both theoretically and empirically the impacts of housing reforms on housing provision in the context of the transition from a centrally-planned to a market-based economy. Fifteen years after the overthrow of state socialism housing policy has lost its privileged status of a political priority as most politically emb- ded systems had favoured market-based solutions to housing problems. This dep- ture from state controlled housing policies with the aim of providing a dwelling for every family is significant, particularly in some post-socialist countries where no new housing policy has emerged. The transition process, embedded in the paradigm shift from central planning to markets, has triggered off turbulence and adjustments with tangible outcomes in post-socialist housing systems. What has changed and what new housing systems have emerged during this dramatic ‘transition to markets and democracy’? Are these systems more efficient and equitable? These questions are the main focus of the book with an emphasis on diversity and change in housing reforms. The book supports the hypothesis that notions of convergence are not really appropriate to the conceptualisation of post-socialist housing systems. It argues that different housing policy choices are going to map out increasingly divergent s- nario for future development.

Author : János Kornai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 2001-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521774888

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The essays in this volume, first published in 2001, examine fiscal policy-making and providing for social welfare in post-socialist countries.

Author : Janos Kornai
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 22,81 MB
Release : 1992-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0191521604

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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 : Stanislaw,etc, Gomulka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 33,76 MB
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1315491354

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First Published in 1990. Socialist countries now account for about a quarter of the world economy, about a third of the world population and about half the world military power. What happens in those countries is therefore par excellence of importance to all of us. This book is an outcome of a Conference on Economic Systems and Reforms in a Changing World, held in Seoul in September 1987. The Conference was significant in several respects. Foremost was the fact that this was probably the first such meeting of scholars from both socialist and non-socialist countries held to discuss socialist economic reforms worldwide.