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The authors turn to the large family of institutions that came into existence in post-Soviet Eurasia (and, in some ways, beyond it) over the last two decades. The researchers review their current state, agenda, real and perceived mandate, and their respective achievements and constraints. The...
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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 …
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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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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 …
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One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land...
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superseding the traditional state socialist model, leading to a transition towards a specifically Cuban form of market socialism. …
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Since the inception of the special period and the loss of its traditional export markets for sugar and other goods, Cuba has turned towards services as new sources of foreign exchange. Tourism has been reactivated and its performance has been broadly satisfactory, yet its long term growth...
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This article was published in the Czech Journal “Plánované hospodářství” in 1967. This was the time of rapid changes both in the Czechoslovak economic and political theory as well as in actual economic and political systems that culminated in the “Prague Spring” of 1968. These...
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GDP per capita since the start of the disintegration of socialism. It is found that the transition has practically …
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Conventional economics, both in its free enterprise and command versions sought to delink the science of economics from moral religious values and reduce it to a positive science. Now most economists feel an urgent need for objective analysis of the entire economic landscape with a view to...
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