Why Market Socialism?

Voices from Dissent
1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-1-56324-465-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 721 g

A collection of essays on market socialism, originally published in Dissent between 1985 and 1993. Among other topics, they take issue with the traditional view that socialism means rejecting the use of markets to organise economic activities, and question the reliance upon markets.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roosevelt, Frank

Belkin, David

Heilbroner, Robert L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Introduction; Chapter 1 Why Market Socialism? From the Critique of Political Economy to Positive Political Economy, David Belkin; Part II The Democratic Socialist Perspective; Chapter 2 Thinking About Socialism: Achievements, Failures, and Possibilities (Fall 1985), Irving Howe; Chapter 3 Markets and Plans: Is the Market Necessarily Capitalist? (Winter 1989), Michael Harrington; Chapter 4 Justice and the Market (Fall 1991), Michel Rocard, Paul Ricoeur; Part III Markets and the Socialist Tradition; Chapter 5 Marx and Market Socialism (Fall 1992), Frank Roosevelt; Chapter 6 Oskar Lange’s Market Socialism: The Story of an Intellectual-Political Career (Winter 1991), Tadeusz Kowalik; Chapter 7 The Turning Point: A Review of Brus and Laski, From Marx to the Market (Winter 1991), David Belkin; Chapter 8 Socialism and Planning: Beyond the Soviet Economic Crisis (Winter 1991), Daniel Bell; Chapter 9 From Sweden to Socialism? An Exchange (Winter 1991), Robert Heilbroner, Joanne Barkan; Part IV Visions, Models, and Blueprints; Chapter 10 Feasible Socialism? Some Social-Political Assumptions (Summer 1985), Alec Nove; Chapter 11 A Case for Market Socialism: What Does It Mean? Why Should We Favor It? (Summer 1987), David Miller, Saul Estrin; Chapter 12 A Vision of Market Socialism: How It Might Work—And Its Problems (Summer 1991), David Miller; Chapter 13 Market Socialism, a Blueprint: How Such an Economy Might Work (Fall 1991), John Roemer; Chapter 14 Challenges to Market Socialism: A Response to Critics (Spring 1992), Thomas E. Weisskopf; Part V Current Debates; Chapter 15 One or Two Cheers for “The Invisible Hand” (Spring 1990), James Tobin; Chapter 16 Social Reality and “Free Markets”: A Letter to Friends in Eastern Europe (Spring 1990), Robert Dahl; Chapter 17 Virtues and Vices of the Market: Balanced Correctives to a Current Craze (Summer 1990), Ernest Erber; Chapter 18 “Market Socialism” and “Free Economy”: A Discussion of Alternatives (Fall 1990), Alec Nove; Chapter 19 Remaking Our Economy: New Strategies for Structural Reform (Spring 1993), Fred Block;

Über Autor(innen)

Frank Roosevelt, David Belkin