From Marx to the Market: Socialism in Search of an Economic System

by Włodzimierz Brus and Kazimierz Laski

Book Overview

Distinguished economists Brus and Laski--who were involved with the Planning Office of the Polish economy in the 1950s and 1960s--here develop a theoretical system of economic management which avoids the failings of both market capitalism and central planning. This book examines Marxists claim to socialism's economic rationality and studies the application of the concept in the "real socialism" of Communist party orthodoxy as well as in the tentative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198233027
• ISBN13: 9780198233022
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"