Consistency and Viability of Socialist Economic Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • John Marangos

   Pages 1-10

3. Consistency and Viability of Economic Systems

   • John Marangos

   Pages 11-54

4. Consistency and Viability of Socialism

   • John Marangos

   Pages 55-67

5. The Soviet Union: From Superpower Status to Collapse

   • John Marangos

   Pages 69-92

6. Consistency and Viability of the Liberman-Kosygin Reforms: The Limited Market Relations Socialist Model

   • John Marangos

   Pages 93-105

7. Consistency and Viability of the Gorbachev Reforms

   • John Marangos

   Pages 107-142

8. Yugoslavia: From Workers’ Self-Managed Market Socialism to the Breakup

   • John Marangos

   Pages 143-192

9. Back Matter

   Pages 193-202

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Economic systems and the reforms processes examined in Consistency and Viability of Socialist Economics Systems are the centrally administered socialist economics system of the Soviet Union, the Liberman-Kosygin reforms, the Gorbachev reforms and market socialism of Yugoslavia.

• economic system
• economics
• reforms
• socialism
• socialist economic system

"John Marangos examines the viability of socialist economic systems from a social science perspective instead of from a narrow mainstream economics perspective. Consequently, he provides a much better understanding of their successes and failures. This is certainly needed in the light of the world-wide crisis caused by the adoption of neoliberal policies." - Frederic S. Lee, Professor of Economics, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA and Editor, American Journal of Economics and Sociology

John Marangos is Professor in the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Greece.

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