result, Mises' critique that socialism could not achieve a rational economic order came to be debated throughout the 1980s … rational socialism and socialist markets helped to justify the Socialist Market Economy with Chinese Characteristics the …

-matter: socialism, capitalism, democracy, change of system. These four expressions cover four phenomena of great and comprehensive … importance. Each piece in the book deals with these and the connections between them. One of the Leitmotifs is the “capitalism/socialism …” pair of opposites. Capitalism has a history of several hundred years, while the socialist regime existed only for a few …