Market and plan under socialism : the bird in the cage / Jan S. Prybyla.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prybyla, Jan S., author.

Series:

Hoover Institution Press publication ; Number 335.

Hoover Institution Press publication ; Number 335

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Central planning--Communist countries.

Central planning.

Communist countries--Economic policy.

Communist countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 365 pages) : illustration.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2019.

Summary:

In this volume the author provides an analysis of the centrally planned, socialist state economies and their common percentage in the Stalinist Plan introduced in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s. Prybyla first explores the "neoclassical" plan in two variants (conservative and liberal), the "radical" plan (Maoplan), and the Yugoslav experiment (neomarket Yugoplan). He then examines specific countries as their governments search for alternative solutions to the economic problems that plague them. His dynamic presentation of the economic models clearly shows the transformation of the original Stalinist model, reveals the obstacles to reform created by the structural problems that exist within these economies, and demonstrates that inherent deficiencies within the systems must, in time, affect growth and balance.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Half Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Concepts

1. Market and Plan: Typology of Plan Models

2. The Classical Plan: Stalinplan

3. The Neoclassical Plan: Conservative and Liberal

4. The Neoclassical Plan: Radical Maoplan

5. Neomarket Yugoplan

6. Additional Issues

Part II: Cases

7. USSR: The Role of Collective Farm Property in the Stalinplan and the Neoclassical Conservative Plan

8. USSR: Information, Coordination, and Motivation in the Neoclassical Conservative Plan

9. China: Stalinplan, Maoplan, Neoclassical Conservative Plan, and Beyond

10. Hungary: Neoclassical Liberal Plan

11. Yugoslavia: Workers' Self-Management and Market Syndicalism

12. Summary and Conclusions

Appendix A: Input-Output Tables and Their Relevance to Planning

Appendix B: The Novosibirsk Document, Summer 1983 (Extracts)

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-335).

ISBN:

9780817983536

0817983538