Rediscovering Fire: Basic Economic Lessons from the Soviet Experiment to Eliminate the Market

by Guinevere Liberty Nell

The experiment with socialism in the Soviet Union was based on Marxist economic theory, which denied the universal nature of economic law. The economy became a blank slate, without markets, prices, even without money - for a time. Government had to rediscover fire - learning basics of economics over again. This historical laboratory of social science should be exploited for the lessons in basic economics that it offers. Many view Lenin as a dictator...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875867480
• ISBN13: 9780875867489
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Algora Publishing
• Length: 322 Pages