Reforming Communism, Refusing Capitalism : The Rise and Fall of the Concept of Socialist Market.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kovács, János Mátyás, editor.

Series:

Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic and Political Thought in Historical Perspective.

Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic and Political Thought in Historical Perspective

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Central planning--Communist countries.

Central planning.

Communist countries--Economic policy.

Communist countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (473 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

This book focuses on the concept of 'socialist market,' a cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies undergoing economic reforms from the 1950s onward.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title

Copyright

Contents

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.

ISBN:

979-88-8188-752-0

1-9787-6342-5

979-82-16-26041-7

OCLC:

1574805536