understood to defend capitalism against socialism. But as Orwell was a committed socialist, this could not have been his … intention. Orwell's criticisms were directed not against socialism per se but against the Soviet Union and similarly …

Financial poverty indicators still play an important role in policymaking and evaluation. Countries such as the USA and …

USA use an objective method to estimate official poverty (Orshansky indicator). Although related, each approach portrays … different dimensions of poverty. In this study we compare the official poverty methodologies of the USA and EU by applying them … Study on Income Dynamics (PSID) for the USA, we compare poverty trends in the USA and EU in relative and absolute terms on a …

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 …

Utopian socialists believed that socialism is inevitable because it is a more rational system to organize production … capitalist limits. This prediction did not come true – in the XX century socialism came to being not in most advanced capitalist … associated with “social nature of productive forces”, which are finally going to make socialism competitive: the costs of …

superseding the traditional state socialist model, leading to a transition towards a specifically Cuban form of market socialism. …

GDP per capita since the start of the disintegration of socialism. It is found that the transition has practically …