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The late Alec Nove explores the relationship between Marxist ideas and the Soviet reality and presents a methodology for understanding Soviet type societies.
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This is the first of two books comprising Alec Nove's previously unpublished writings. Nove believed that economic theory should be constructed from real experience and not simply from theory because that does not relate to real economies. He argued for a more humane economic system.
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• Part 1 Economics without markets - from Marx to contemporary Marxists.
• Part 2 Economics without markets - critiques.
• Part 3 From central planning to the mixed economy.
• Part 4 Markets and socialism in the West.
• Part 5 From existing socialism to the market.
• Part 6 Market socialism - the last stand?
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These extracts concern the relationship between market and plan, or how to organize an economy to best satisfy demands for efficiency, compassion and freedom. Beginning with Karl Marx, this volume presents the non-market, market and mixed market models. It includes the "socialist calculation" debate and the experiences of Russia, East-Central Europe, Sweden, the US and China.
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• Introduction, Naum Jasny, by A. Nove.--Priorities and shortfalls in pre-war Soviet planning, by H. Hunter.--Plans to urbanize the countryside, 1950-61, by L. Richter.--The role of the state bank in Soviet planning, by G. Garvy.--The theory of international comparisons of economic volume, by P. Wiles.--Soviet planners in 1936-37, by J. Miller.--Welfare criteria in Soviet planning, by M. C. Kaser.--Development aid for development's sake, by W. Klatt.--Towards a theory of planning, by A. Nove.--Some statistical comparisons, by C. Clark.--Naum Jasny at eighty, by J. H. Richter.--Bibliography of the principal works of Naum Jasny (p.221-224)

• Part 1 History of economic ideas: three early Russian economists
• M.I.Tugan-Baranovsky. Part 2 Economic history: war communism
• Lenin and the new economic policy
• Trotsky, markets and East European reforms
• the end of NEP
• the Soviet peasantry in the war
• industry under Khrushchev
• Russian modernization. Part 3 Economics - east and west: planning
• markets? yes but...
• Friedman, markets and planning - a comment
• the fragmentionist debate
• Marxism and "really existing socialism"
• planning and markets
• "feasible socialism" revisited
• Soviet reforms and Western neo-classical economics. Part 4 Contemporary USSR: has Soviet growth ceased?
• labour incentives
• Soviet agriculture
• the contribution of imported technology to Soviet growth
• the defence burden
• is within-system reform possible?
• Soviet economic reform - progress and frustrations.
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A collection of papers reflecting a wide range of thought, from the history of Russian economic thought to the possible ramifications of changes in contemporary Soviet economic policy with respect to the problems created by a functioning "capitalist-style" market.
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• Preface
• A note on the notes Introduction: Socialism - Why? Part 1: The Legacy of Marx Part 2: Socialism and the Soviet Experience Part 3: Reform Models: Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland, China Part 4: Transition Part 5: Feasible Socialism Conclusion Appendix 1: On Contradiction Appendix 2: Two Critiques Appendix 3: A Note on Utopia Index.
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The Economics of Feasible Socialism is a path-breaking book. Characteristically readable, controversial and full of insights, Nove identifies a workable socialist programme, achievable in the lifetime of a child born today, that avoids far-fetched or utopian assumptions. It has been immensely influential in the West, and is available in translation in China, Hungary and the Soviet Union. Alec Nove begins by demonstrating why Marx's theories provide a misleading guide to the issues facing economists under any realistically conceivable socialism. He goes on to discuss the problems experinced by communist-ruled countries, especially the Soviet Union, and to suggest possible remedies and solutions. Nove also examines problems of transition, in the context of Western industrialised countries and the Third World. He concludes by outlining a possible efficienct and human socialism, and examines objections to these ideas from the Left and the Right.
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• History, hierarchy and nationalities.--Russia as an emergent country.--A note on Trotsky and the "Left" opposition, 1929-31.--Lenin as economist.--Some observations on Bukharin and his ideas.--Planners' preferences, priorities and reforms.--"Market socialism" and its critics.--Some developments in East European economic thought.--The politics of economic reform.--Can Eastern Europe feed itself?--Inflation in Communist countries.--Is there a ruling class in the USSR?--Some observations in criteria for the study of the Soviet Union.

• Preface
• A note on the notes Introduction: Socialism - Why? Part 1: The Legacy of Marx Part 2: Socialism and the Soviet Experience Part 3: Reform Models: Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland, China Part 4: Transition Part 5: Feasible Socialism Conclusion Appendix 1: On Contradiction Appendix 2: Two Critiques Appendix 3: A Note on Utopia Index.
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The Economics of Feasible Socialism is a path-breaking book. Characteristically readable, controversial and full of insights, Nove identifies a workable socialist programme, achievable in the lifetime of a child born today, that avoids far-fetched or utopian assumptions. It has been immensely influential in the West, and is available in translation in China, Hungary and the Soviet Union. Alec Nove begins by demonstrating why Marx's theories provide a misleading guide to the issues facing economists under any realistically conceivable socialism. He goes on to discuss the problems experinced by communist-ruled countries, especially the Soviet Union, and to suggest possible remedies and solutions. Nove also examines problems of transition, in the context of Western industrialised countries and the Third World. He concludes by outlining a possible efficienct and human socialism, and examines objections to these ideas from the Left and the Right.
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• Part 1 Genesis: the Russian political tradition
• the circumstances of revolution
• "NEP" and the rise of the Secretariat
• the great debate - socialism in one country
• the great turning-point. Part 2 The system consolidated: the revolution from above
• privilege, inequality, hierarchy, discipline
• the Seventeenth Congress and the Great Terror
• the purposes of the purge
• the cultural counter-revolution and neo-nationalism
• foreign policy turnabouts
• economic policies in the mid-thirties. Part 3 War: Munich and the Nazi-Soviet pact
• Stalin's big mistake
• Stalin the war leader. Part 4 The last years of Stalin: the brief false spring
• Stalin and the Cold War
• political and cultural repression at home
• economic progress and the Nineteenth Party Congress
• the end of an era
• a digression - what explanation for Stalinism? Part 5 Stalin's heirs and Stalin's legacy: Malenkov outmanoeuvred - Krushchev wins power
• Krushchev's policies and "destalinization"
• Krushchev challenged and triumphant. Part 6 The fall of Krushchev and the rise of Brezhnev: the Brezhnev regime
• what does Brezhnev stand for. Part 7 Brezhnev's death and Gorbachev's rise: Gorbachev and Stalin.
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Alec Nove traces the origins of Stalinism in the USSR, critically analyses its nature and achievements, examines the process of destalinisation which followed Stalin's death, and explores the evolution of the Soviet system under Krushchev, Brezhnev and Gorbachev. His previous books include "Socialism, Economics, and Development", "The Soviet Economic System", "Was Stalin Really Necessary?" and "Economic History of the USSR".
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• History, hierarchy and nationalities.--Russia as an emergent country.--A note on Trotsky and the "Left" opposition, 1929-31.--Lenin as economist.--Some observations on Bukharin and his ideas.--Planners' preferences, priorities and reforms.--"Market socialism" and its critics.--Some developments in East European economic thought.--The politics of economic reform.--Can Eastern Europe feed itself?--Inflation in Communist countries.--Is there a ruling class in the USSR?--Some observations in criteria for the study of the Soviet Union.