Nove, Alec,

Socialist economics : selected readings / edited by Alec Nove and D. M. Nuti. - Harmondsworth : Penguin Books Ltd, 1972 - 526 pages : illustrations, charts ; 18 cm - Penguin education Penguin modern economics readings . - Penguin education Penguin modern economics readings .

Includes index.

Introduction -- Part one: The socialist economy 1. Selected quotation from Marxist sources / Marx, Engels, Lenin, Bukharin, Preobrazhensky, Stalin -- 2. The ministry of production in the collectivist state / E. Barone (1908) -- 3. Economic calculation in the socialist commonwealth / L. von Mises (1920) -- 4. On the economic theory of socialism / O. Lange (1936-7). Part two: Accumulation and growth 5. A note on saving and investment in a socialist economy / M. H. Dobbs (1939) -- 6. Socialist primitive accumulation / E. Preobrazhensky (1926) -- 7. A Soviet model of growth / E. Domar (1957) -- 8. Problems in the theory of growth under socialism / W. Brus and K. Laski (1965). Part three: Planning techniques 9. Outline of a method of constructing a perspective plan / M. Kalecki (1962) -- 10. Planning with material balances in soviet-type economies / J. M. Montias (1959) -- 11. Generalized formula of the efficiency of investment / M. Kalecki and M. Rakowski (1959) -- 12. Consumer's sovereignty in a planned economy / J. Robinson (1964) -- 13. The monetary system and the payments flow / G. Garvy (1966). Part four: Economic reforms 14. The plan, profits and bonuses / E. G. Liberman (1962) -- 15. On improving industrial management / A. N. Kosygin (1965) -- 16. Economic reforms in the USSR and Hungary, a study in contrasts / A. Nove (1970) -- 17. Investment reforms in Czechoslovakia / D. M. Nuti (1970) -- 18. Problems of planned pricing and the reform of industrial management / V. V. Novozhilov (1966). Part five: Mathematical techniques and socialist planning 19. The computer and the market / O. Lange (1967) -- 20. Basic elements of a model of planned price formation / V. Nemchinov (1963) -- 21. Mathematical formulation of the problem of optimal planning / L. V. Kantorovich (1959) -- 22. Notes on optimal planning / A. L. Veinshtein (1966) -- 23. Mathematical programming as a tool of socialist economic planning / J. Kornai (1965). Part six: The Chinese model 24. The Chinese model: Some characteristics of Maoist policies for social change and economic growth / Jack Gray. Further reading -- Acknowledgements -- Author index -- Subject index.

"The socialist countries represent today over one-third of the world's population and industrial output. Despite wide national differences fairly similar patterns of economic organization have emerged. This book contains wide-ranging material on the institutional aspects of the socialist economy." -- From the back cover.

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Marxian economics.


Europe, Eastern--Economic policy.
Communist countries--Economic policy.

HC 244 / .N63 1972

335/.008