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The Anatomy of Emerging African Capitalist States

Stambuli, Kalonga - EconWPA - 2002

The author argues that the doctrine of state supremacy in Africa suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the collapse of export prices of African commodities in the late seventies, which undermined the ability of governments to support their expanded public sector. The author observes that...

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Marx and the Mechanism of Functioning of a Socialist Economy

Kyn, Oldrich - EconWPA - 2005

said very little about the concrete organization of a socialist economy. His general remarks about socialism were …

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Dreamland

Booncharoenpol, Boonserm - EconWPA - 2005

Dreamland is an economic idea for ideal society like Utopia of Moore but it is more applicable to the real world. A man, Boon, had visited a wonderful land and told us what he met in the ideal country. For example: no liquor, limitation of personal wealth, education without degree. If any...

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Macroeconomic Consumption Functions for Czechoslovakia: A Planners' Permanent Income Hypothesis

Kyn, Oldrich; Slama, Jiri - EconWPA - 2005

This paper presents estimates of the macroeconomic consumption function for a Soviet type economy. Systemic differences, however, require that two relations instead of the usual single behavioral relation be estimated. The first relation, which we call the 'planners' consumption function',...

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ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION: STRONG AND WEAK SIDE; A Statement of Independent Czech and Slovak Economists

Kyn, Oldrich; Slama, Jiri; Benacek, Vladimir; Kouba, Karel - EconWPA - 2005

Klaus, are defended against the leftis criticism that favored either market socialism or the so called 'Third Way'. On the …

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THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM AS AN END OR AS A MEANS AND THE FUTURE OF SOCIALISM AND CAPITALISM: AN EVOLUTIONARY VIEWPOINT

Chilosi, Alberto - EconWPA - 2003

After the demise of “real” socialism and the decline of “western” socialism, socialism can be salvaged as a social … socialism could derive from the socialization of consumption, if the consumption of public goods continues to make up a growing …

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THE ROLE OF PRICES IN A SOCIALIST ECONOMY

Kyn, Oldrich - EconWPA - 2005

This is a paper presented at the East-West economic conference in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1964. The paper outlines the main features of price policy in the Soviet-type socialist system of Eastern Europe. All the prices were centrally fixed, with the main aim to achieve planned standard of living for...

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THE HIDDEN INEQUALITY IN SOCIALISM

Henderson, David; McNab, Robert M; Rozsas, Tamas - EconWPA - 2004

socialism and to the process of economic and political liberalization. We question that link, because we question whether … socialism was egalitarian. The inequalities in socialism were hidden but, nevertheless, were real. …

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Inequality-Driven Growth: Unveiling Aggregation Effects in Growth Equations

Albuquerque, Pedro H. - EconWPA - 2005

. The accelerated growth episodes observed in Brazil and China demonstrate that the increase in income inequality may have …

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Half a World: Regional inequality in five great federations

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004

The paper studies regional (spatial) inequality in five most populous countries in the world: China, India, the United … issue of overall inequality as perceived by citizens within a nation. China and India show rising inequality in terms of … vs. Bihar, and Shandong vs. Sichuan provide nice examples of such outcomes in India and China. Higher inflation and …

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