Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262691825
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The rapid collapse of socialism has raised new economic policy questions and revived old theoretical issues. In this book, Joseph Stiglitz explains how the neoclassical, or Walrasian model (the formal articulation of Adam Smith's invisible hand), which has dominated economic thought over the past half century, may have wrongly encouraged the belief that market socialism could work. Stiglitz proposes an alternative model, based on the economics of information, that provides greater theoretical insight into the workings of a market economy and clearer guidance for the setting of policy in transitional economies. Stiglitz sees the critical failing in the standard neoclassical model underlying market socialism to be its assumptions concerning information, particularly its failure to consider the problems that arise from lack of perfect information and from the costs of acquiring information. He also identifies problems arising from its assumptions concerning completeness of markets, competitiveness of markets, and the absence of innovation. Stiglitz argues that not only did the existing paradigm fail to provide much guidance on the vital question of the choice of economic systems, the advice it did provide was often misleading.
Whither Socialism?
Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262691825
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The rapid collapse of socialism has raised new economic policy questions and revived old theoretical issues. In this book, Joseph Stiglitz explains how the neoclassical, or Walrasian model (the formal articulation of Adam Smith's invisible hand), which has dominated economic thought over the past half century, may have wrongly encouraged the belief that market socialism could work. Stiglitz proposes an alternative model, based on the economics of information, that provides greater theoretical insight into the workings of a market economy and clearer guidance for the setting of policy in transitional economies. Stiglitz sees the critical failing in the standard neoclassical model underlying market socialism to be its assumptions concerning information, particularly its failure to consider the problems that arise from lack of perfect information and from the costs of acquiring information. He also identifies problems arising from its assumptions concerning completeness of markets, competitiveness of markets, and the absence of innovation. Stiglitz argues that not only did the existing paradigm fail to provide much guidance on the vital question of the choice of economic systems, the advice it did provide was often misleading.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262691825
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The rapid collapse of socialism has raised new economic policy questions and revived old theoretical issues. In this book, Joseph Stiglitz explains how the neoclassical, or Walrasian model (the formal articulation of Adam Smith's invisible hand), which has dominated economic thought over the past half century, may have wrongly encouraged the belief that market socialism could work. Stiglitz proposes an alternative model, based on the economics of information, that provides greater theoretical insight into the workings of a market economy and clearer guidance for the setting of policy in transitional economies. Stiglitz sees the critical failing in the standard neoclassical model underlying market socialism to be its assumptions concerning information, particularly its failure to consider the problems that arise from lack of perfect information and from the costs of acquiring information. He also identifies problems arising from its assumptions concerning completeness of markets, competitiveness of markets, and the absence of innovation. Stiglitz argues that not only did the existing paradigm fail to provide much guidance on the vital question of the choice of economic systems, the advice it did provide was often misleading.
Whither Socialism?
Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz
Publisher: Mit Press
ISBN: 9780262193405
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher: Mit Press
ISBN: 9780262193405
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Whither Russia?
Author: Leon Trotsky
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
London edition (Methuen) has title: Towards socialism or capitalism?
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
London edition (Methuen) has title: Towards socialism or capitalism?
Whither Marxism?
Author: Bernd Magnus
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134979169
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This is the companion volume to Spectres of Marx , and tackles the central theme of the fate of Marxism after the global collapse of communism.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134979169
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This is the companion volume to Spectres of Marx , and tackles the central theme of the fate of Marxism after the global collapse of communism.
The Anti-capitalist Chronicles
Author: David Harvey
Publisher: Red Letter
ISBN: 9780745342085
Category : Anti-globalization movement
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A new book from one of the most cited authors in the humanities and social sciences
Publisher: Red Letter
ISBN: 9780745342085
Category : Anti-globalization movement
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A new book from one of the most cited authors in the humanities and social sciences
Is the East Still Red?
Author: Gary Blank
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1780997566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Does China represent a non-capitalist alternative to neoliberal development models? Commentators on the left have offered sharply divergent assessments over the last two decades. A few still cling the old dream of market socialism, twinning efficiency with social justice. For most, however, China is proof that market reforms invariably yield dispossession, inequality, and capitalist restoration. Is the East Still Red? argues that both interpretations are wrong and exhibit a common failure to distinguish between market mechanisms and capitalist imperatives. Gary Blank situates the Chinese experience within broader Marxist debates on socio-historical transitions and primitive accumulation, highlighting the need to conceptualize capitalism as a unique system in which producers and appropriators depend on the market for their reproduction. Despite years of marketization, the mandarins in Beijing have not yet imposed full market dependence in industry and agriculture. He shows how the resistance of workers and peasants, the imperatives of party-state legitimacy, and the reproductive strategies of individual Communist officials and managers all act to perpetuate central aspects of a bureaucratic-collectivist system, in which direct producers and bureaucrats are effectively merged with the means of production. The People’s Republic may be a non-capitalist market alternative, albeit one that is hardly edifying for socialists.
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1780997566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Does China represent a non-capitalist alternative to neoliberal development models? Commentators on the left have offered sharply divergent assessments over the last two decades. A few still cling the old dream of market socialism, twinning efficiency with social justice. For most, however, China is proof that market reforms invariably yield dispossession, inequality, and capitalist restoration. Is the East Still Red? argues that both interpretations are wrong and exhibit a common failure to distinguish between market mechanisms and capitalist imperatives. Gary Blank situates the Chinese experience within broader Marxist debates on socio-historical transitions and primitive accumulation, highlighting the need to conceptualize capitalism as a unique system in which producers and appropriators depend on the market for their reproduction. Despite years of marketization, the mandarins in Beijing have not yet imposed full market dependence in industry and agriculture. He shows how the resistance of workers and peasants, the imperatives of party-state legitimacy, and the reproductive strategies of individual Communist officials and managers all act to perpetuate central aspects of a bureaucratic-collectivist system, in which direct producers and bureaucrats are effectively merged with the means of production. The People’s Republic may be a non-capitalist market alternative, albeit one that is hardly edifying for socialists.
The Tyranny of Socialism ...
Author: Yves Guyot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Whither Russia? Towards Capitalism Or Socialism
Author: Leon Trotsky
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258010416
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258010416
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Postsocialism
Author: C.M. Hann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134504462
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Social scientist did not predict the collapse of the socialist system in 1989-91. Their attempts to explain postsocialism have not been comprehensive. This book examines why, for the first time from an anthropological standpoint.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134504462
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Social scientist did not predict the collapse of the socialist system in 1989-91. Their attempts to explain postsocialism have not been comprehensive. This book examines why, for the first time from an anthropological standpoint.
Whither Russia?
Author: Leon Trotsky
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description