Education has played an important role in making Vietnam a development success story over the last twenty years. In the 1990s and early 2000s Vietnam experienced rapid economic growth and poverty reduction in the wake of a rapid shift of employment from low-productivity agriculture to...

Intro -- TOWARD A POST-MARKET SOCIETY -- TOWARD A POST-MARKET SOCIETY -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION -- COMMON ILLUSIONS -- A NEW LOGIC -- A NEW COLLABORATION -- ECONOMICS AND SOLIDARITY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES --...

Karl Polanyi's "substantivist" critique of market society has renewed topicality in the era of neoliberal globalization. Polanyi (1886-1964) is popular among critical theorists and radical political economists, but also with ecological activists, anti-globalization campaigners and all who sense...

This book presents the first full-length explanation in English of Heinsohn and Steiger's groundbreaking theory of money and interest, which emphasizes the role played by private property rights. Ownership economics gives an alternative explanation of money and interest, proposing that...

Intro -- Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Communism as an Economic and Societal System in the Twentieth Century -- 1.1. The theoretical model of the command economy and society -- 1.2. The historical evolution of Soviet communism --...

What Historical Value Orientation Should We Take to Understand and Promote the Reform -- Theoretical Debate Focus Regarding the Rightness of Institutional Transformation: Rethinking the Theory of Value and Conflict of the Two Economic Philosophies -- Historic Changes of Economic Development and...