Markets in the Name of Socialism
Title | Markets in the Name of Socialism PDF eBook |
Author | Johanna Bockman |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 556 |
Release | 2011-07-26 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0804778965 |
The worldwide spread of neoliberalism has transformed economies, polities, and societies everywhere. In conventional accounts, American and Western European economists, such as Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek, sold neoliberalism by popularizing their free-market ideas and radical criticisms of the state. Rather than focusing on the agency of a few prominent, conservative economists, Markets in the Name of Socialism reveals a dialogue among many economists on both sides of the Iron Curtain about democracy, socialism, and markets. These discussions led to the transformations of 1989 and, unintentionally, the rise of neoliberalism. This book takes a truly transnational look at economists' professional outlook over 100 years across the capitalist West and the socialist East. Clearly translating complicated economic ideas and neoliberal theories, it presents a significant reinterpretation of Cold War history, the fall of communism, and the rise of today's dominant economic ideology.
Market Socialism
Title | Market Socialism PDF eBook |
Author | David Schweickart |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2016-04-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1134954549 |
Aside from Post Modernism, probably the hottest topic today among socialist scholars world-wide is Market Socialism. In this book, four leading socialist scholars present both sides of the debate--two for, and two against--highlighting the different perspectives from which Market Socialism has been viewed. Arguing in favor of Market Socialism are the philosophers David Schweickart and James Lawler. While opposing them and Market Socialism are the political economist Hillel Ticktin and the political theorist Bertell Ollman. The evidence and arguments found in this book will prove invaluable to readers interested in the future of socialism.
Against the Market
Title | Against the Market PDF eBook |
Author | David McNally |
Publisher | Verso |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1993-12-17 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780860916062 |
In this innovative book, David McNally develops a powerful critique of market socialism, by tracing it back to its roots in early political economy. He ranges from Adam Smith’s attempt to reconcile moral philosophy with market economics to Malthus’s reformulation of Smith’s political economy which made it possible to justify poverty as a moral necessity. Smith’s economic theory was also the source of an attempt to construct a critique of capitalism derived from his conception of free and equal exchange governed by natural price. This Smithian forerunner of today’s market socialism sought to reform the market without abolishing the social relations on which it was based. McNally explores this tradition sympathetically, but exposes its fatal flaws. The book concludes with an incisive consideration of efforts by writers such as Alec Nove to construct a “feasible” model of market socialism. McNally shows these efforts are still plagued by the failure of early Smithian socialism to come to grips with the social foundations of the market, the commodification of labor-power which is the key to market regulation of the economy. The results, he argues, are neither socialist nor workable.
Markets in the Name of Socialism
Title | Markets in the Name of Socialism PDF eBook |
Author | Johanna Bockman |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2011-07-26 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0804775664 |
Challenging conventional accounts, Markets in the Name of Socialism chronicles a transnational dialogue among economists on both sides of the Iron Curtain about democracy, socialism, and markets. These exchanges led to the transformations of 1989 and, unintentionally, the rise of neoliberalism.
Market Socialism
Title | Market Socialism PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Le Grand |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
What is "market socialism"? Can markets be used to achieve socialist ends? A distinguished group of academics here explore the political, social, economic, and philosophical implications of market socialism, and show how markets, sensibly used, can promote socialism more effectively than traditional socialist economic mechanisms. Focusing on the original issues of the British socialist debate, they cast a fresh light on these issues and begin the crucial task of rethinking the basis of socialism.
Market, State, and Community
Title | Market, State, and Community PDF eBook |
Author | David Miller |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780198278641 |
David Miller makes a comprehensive analysis of an economy in which market mechanisms retain a central role, but in which capitalist patterns of ownership have been superceded. He provides a clear, coherent statement of the theoretical basis of market socialism, and justifies it as a viable political option.
On the Political Economy of Market Socialism
Title | On the Political Economy of Market Socialism PDF eBook |
Author | James A. Yunker |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 2018-05-08 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1351775391 |
This title was first published in 2001. Spanning a quarter of a century, this collection makes conveniently accessible 14 of Yunker’s thorough and highly illuminating contributions to the literature on market socialism.