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Random samples of the Moscow and New York populations were compared in their attitudes towards free markets by administering identical telephone interviews in the two countries in May, 1990. Although the Soviet respondents were somewhat less likely to accept exchange of money as a solution to...
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Winning in the battle for jobs is two-fold: making gains in jobs and relief, and making gains in the development of anti-racist revolutionary class consciousness. Marxists and institutionalists have shown theoretically that unemployment is endemic to capitalism. The global experience of the 20th...
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This paper compares the fundamental postulates of major economic systems i.e. Capitalism, Socialism, Mixed economy (a … hybrid of Capitalism and Socialism) and the Islamic economic system. It identifies through a review of theoretical economics …. Socialism promises to create heaven on earth, but takes fundamental human rights and profit motive away and in the extreme case …
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János Kornai, a distinguished Hungarian economist, began his adult life as an ardent believer in socialism and then … research. Disenchanted with communism, Kornai published Overcentralization (1956), the first book written by someone living … before, during, and after communism. …
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As a Socialist country undergoing rapid social and economic transition, China presents a revealing case study on the role of ideology in the process of institutional change. Based on Douglass North’s theory of institutional change and on David Beetham’s theory of political legitimation, this...
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facilitating agency is free. At the other end are the communism and socialism. Recent changes and developments have caused …
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This paper revisits the widely known and used concept of soft budget constraints in party-states introduced by Kornai (1980), from the point of view of a comparative analytical model (Csanádi, 2003). It embeds budget constraints in the structure of power relations described by the model as the...
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-Infos, 16 February 1983) and van der Veen's formal model of the transition from socialism to communism ("From Contribution to … draft of this text was written in May 1983 by Van Parijs under the title "The Capitalist Transition to Communism: A Radical … Veen and Van Parijs ("Universal Grants Versus Socialism"). The piece was subsequently republished, in the original or in …
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This paper analytically compares the theoretical foundations of major economic systems i.e. Capitalism, Socialism …, Mixed economy (a hybrid of Capitalism and Socialism) and the Islamic economic system. The research identifies that lack of … and monetary system are the major problematic issues in the current economic order. Socialism promises to create heaven on …
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represent barriers to the transition from socialism to communism; 8) finally discuss what will be necessary for the … consider, accept both that planning is an inherent and essential aspect of socialism, and that not only the details but the … socialism has to be created; 2) focus on just one of many questions that need to be resolved concerning the appropriate basic …
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