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  • Reforming Communism, Refusing Capitalism

    The Rise and Fall of the Concept of “Socialist Market”

    by Dr. János Mátyás Kovács, Dr. Pencho D. Penchev, Dr. Sheng Peng, Julius Horváth, Hans-Jürgen Wagener, Dr. Piotr Korys, Valentin Cojanu, Oleg Ananyin, Denis Melnik, Jože Mencinger0, Maciej Tyminski1 ...
    Series series Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic and Political Thought in Historical Perspective
    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 ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Communist Planning versus Rationality

    Mathematical Economics and the Central Plan in Eastern Europe and China

    by Andrei Belykh, Maciej Bukowski, Valentin Cojanu, Kaloyan Ganev, Julius Horvath, Gergely Kohegyi, Xiuli Liu, Udo Ludwig, Wojciech Maciejewski, Joze Mencinger, Stefan Petranov0, Grigore Ioan Pirosca1, Minghui Qin2, Knut Richter3, Hans-Jurgen Wagener4, Xin Xiang5, Shan Zheng6, Roumen Avramov7, Dr. János Mátyás Kovács8 ...
    Series series Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic and Political Thought in Historical Perspective
    This volume examines concepts of central planning, a cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies. It revolves around the theory of “optimal planning” which promised a profound modernization of Stalinist-style verbal planning. Encouraged by cybernetic dreams in the 1950s and supporting the strategic goals of communist leaders in the Cold War, optimal planners offered the ruling elites ... Read more

    $106.99 USD

  • Populating No Man’s Land

    Economic Concepts of Ownership under Communism

    by Oleg Ananyin, Roumen Avramov, Fan Shitao, Julius Horváth, Denis Melnik, Jože Mencinger, Gabriel Mursa, Vlad Pa?ca, Franz Rudolph, Vítezslav Sommer, Maciej Tyminski0, Hans-Jürgen Wagener1, Dr. János Mátyás Kovács2 ...
    Series series Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic and Political Thought in Historical Perspective
    This edited volume opening the new series Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic Thought in Historical Perspective focuses on the concepts of ownership, the cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies. The authors’ main objective is to contribute to the still unwritten chapter on collectivism in the history books of modern economic thought. They trace the lengthy evolution of ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

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  • Maoism and the Chinese Revolution

    A Critical Introduction

    by Elliott Liu ...
    Series series Revolutionary Pocketbooks
    The Chinese Revolution changed the face of the twentieth century, and the politics that issued from it—often referred to as “Maoism”—resonated with colonized and oppressed people from the 1970s down to the anticapitalist movements of today. But how did these politics first emerge? And what do they offer activists today, who seek to transform capitalist society at its very foundations?Maoism and ... Read more

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  • Markets in the Name of Socialism

    The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism

    by Johanna Bockman ...
    The worldwide spread of neoliberalism has transformed economies, polities, and societies everywhere. In conventional accounts, American and Western European economists, such as Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek, sold neoliberalism by popularizing their free-market ideas and radical criticisms of the state. Rather than focusing on the agency of a few prominent, conservative economists, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Building a Ruin

    The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform

    by Yakov Feygin ...
    A masterful account of the global Cold War’s decisive influence on Soviet economic reform, and the national decay that followed.What brought down the Soviet Union? From some perspectives the answers seem obvious, even teleological—communism was simply destined to fail. When Yakov Feygin studied the question, he came to another conclusion: at least one crucial factor was a deep contradiction within ... Read more

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  • The Putin System

    An Opposing View

    by Grigory Yavlinsky ...
    A quarter century after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia once again looms large over world affairs, from Ukraine to Syria to the 2016 U.S. election. Yet how power works in present-day Russia—how Vladimir Putin came to power and maintains his rule—remains opaque and often misunderstood. In The Putin System, Russian economist and opposition leader Grigory Yavlinsky explains his country’s ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Left in China

    A Political Cartography

    by Ralf Ruckus ...
    'Does a great service by shifting our attention to the oppositional movements of Chinese workers, peasants, students, and women who have contested inequality and exploitation' - Manfred ElfstromTracing the fascinating history of left-wing, subversive and oppositional forces in China over the last 70 years, Ralf Ruckus pulls back the curtain on Chinese politics.He looks at the interconnected ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of Karl Marx's Capital

    by Macat Team ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    A critical analysis of Karl Marx’s Capital, which is without question one of the most influential books to be published in the course of the past two centuries. Controversial in its politics, and arriving at conclusions that are passionately debated to this day, it is nonetheless a fine example of the creative combination of a philosophical method (the dialectic) with historical and economic ... Read more

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  • Authoritarian Modernization in Russia

    Ideas, Institutions, and Policies

    Edited by Vladimir Gel'man ...
    Series series Studies in Contemporary Russia
    Post-Communist Russia is an instance of the phenomenon of authoritarian modernization project, which is perceived as a set of policies intended to achieve a high level of economic development, while political freedoms remain beyond the current modernization agenda or are postponed to a distant future. Why did Russia (unlike many countries of post-Communist Europe) pursue authoritarian ... Read more

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  • Why Communism Did Not Collapse

    Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe

    Edited by Martin K. Dimitrov ...
    This volume brings together a distinguished group of scholars working to address the puzzling durability of communist autocracies in Eastern Europe and Asia, which are the longest-lasting type of non-democratic regime to emerge after World War I. The volume conceptualizes the communist universe as consisting of the ten regimes in Eastern Europe and Mongolia that eventually collapsed in 1989–91, ... Read more

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