Reforming Communism, Refusing Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of the Concept of "Socialist Market" focuses on the concept of "socialist market,: a cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies undergoing economic reforms from the 1950s onward. Encouraged by the success of non-capitalist mixed economies, market reformers (also called 'market socialists') offered the communist ruling elites a remedy for the persistent crises of the planned economy. Besides optimal planning and pluralization of social ownership, this was the third major attempt under existing socialism to revise the communist utopia of a centrally planned economy free from private property and the market.
The authors trace the rise and fall of marketization theories in the communist era in eight countries of Eastern Europe (including the Soviet Union) and China, describing why the mission of mixing the planned economy and the market, while refusing large-scale private ownership and accepting one-party rule, was doomed to fail. The protagonists of the socialist market contributed to the rehabilitation of certain liberal doctrines in economic research and policy in the Soviet empire and beyond, which did not develop into a coherent liberal (let alone, neoliberal) program.
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The Rise and Fall of the Concept of “Socialist Market”
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Revisiting Communism
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Marketing the Market? Understanding Reformism in Communist Economic Thought
- 1 At the Periphery of Market Socialism: Market Concepts in Bulgaria
- 2 Reform of the System or Reform Within the System? Intellectual Traditions and the Long Market Debate in Mainland China and Taiwan
- 3 Not a Struggle Forever: Central Planning and Ideas of Market Reform in Czechoslovakia, 1945–90
- 4 East Germany: A Case of Failed Modernization
- 5 How Many Waves Did Reform Economists Ride in Communist Hungary? Second Thoughts on the New Economic Mechanism
- 6 Marketization of the Socialist Economy: Debates in Poland Under Communist Rule
- 7 Market Culture in Romanian Economic Thought Under Communism
- 8 Unholy Alliance: Socialism and the Market in Soviet Economic Discourse
- 9 The Rise and Fall of Socialist Market Economy
- Conclusion Reflections on an Oxymoron: The Sad Fate of the Concept of the Socialist Market
- Index
- About the Editor
- About the Contributors
- Copyright Page
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