Socialist economics : selected readings / edited by Alec Nove and D. M. Nuti.
Material type: TextSeries: Penguin education | Penguin modern economics readingsPublication details: Harmondsworth : Penguin Books Ltd, 1972Description: 526 pages : illustrations, charts ; 18 cmISBN:- 0140806229
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- HC 244 .N63 1972
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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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