Economics and Politics of Socialism

Name: Economics and Politics of Socialism
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This volume focuses on the socio-political aspects of economic transformations in the Eastern European Socialist countries. > The volume focuses on the socio-political aspects of economic transformations in the Eastern European Socialist countries. Particular emphasis is laid on the problem of interrelations between the plan and the market and between economic incentives and social consumption. The volume also examines economic and political factors in the wider political context, particularly looking at the question of democratization within industry and politics. > Chapter 1 1This paper was published in German under the title Die Entwicklung des sozialistischen Wirtschaftssystems in Polen. Bemerkungen zu einigen allgemeinen Problemen (Hamburger Jahrbuch f\u00FCr Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftspolitik, 1965). It contains large excerpts from a paper, \u2018Problems of decentralization in a socialist planned economy\u2019, presented by the author at the Sixth World Congress of ;