Reforming Communism, Refusing Capitalism

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The Rise and Fall of the Concept of “Socialist Market”

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av János Mátyás Kovács, Janos Matyas Kovacs

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Reforming Communism, Refusing Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of the Concept of "Socialist Market" focuses on the concept of “socialist market,: a cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies undergoing economic reforms from the 1950s onward. Encouraged by the success of non-capitalist mixed economies, market reformers (also called ’market socialists’) offered the communist ruling elites a remedy for the persistent crises of the planned economy. Besides optimal planning and pluralization of social ownership, this was the third major attempt under existing socialism to revise the communist utopia of a centrally planned economy free from private property and the market.The authors trace the rise and fall of marketization theories in the communist era in eight countries of Eastern Europe (including the Soviet Union) and China, describing why the mission of mixing the planned economy and the market, while refusing large-scale private ownership and accepting one-party rule, was doomed to fail. The protagonists of the socialist market contributed to the rehabilitation of certain liberal doctrines in economic research and policy in the Soviet empire and beyond, which did not develop into a coherent liberal (let alone, neoliberal) program.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-11
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRevisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic and Political Thought in Historical Perspective
Antal sidor384
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793631800

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List of tablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMarketing the Market? Understanding Reformism in Communist Economic ThoughtJános Mátyás Kovács, Institute for Human Sciences, AustriaChapter 1At the Periphery of Market Socialism. Market Concepts in BulgariaPencho D. Penchev, University of National and World Economy, BulgariaChapter 2Reform of the System or Reform Within the System? Intellectual Traditions and the Long Market Debate in Mainland China and TaiwanSheng Peng, University of Vienna, AustriaChapter 3 Not a Struggle Forever. Central Planning and Ideas of Market Reform in Czechoslovakia, 1945–1990Julius Horváth, Central European University, BudapestChapter 4 East Germany – A Case of Failed ModernizationHans-Jürgen Wagener, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NetherlandsChapter 5 How Many Waves Did Reform Economists Ride in Communist Hungary? Second Thoughts on the New Economic MechanismJános Mátyás Kovács, Institute for Human Sciences, AustriaChapter 6 Marketization of the Socialist Economy. Debates in Poland under Communist RulePiotr Korys, University of Warsaw, Poland and Maciej Tyminski, University of Warsaw, PolandChapter 7 Market Culture in Romanian Economic Thought under CommunismValentin Cojanu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, RomaniaChapter 8 Unholy Alliance. Socialism and the Market in Soviet Economic DiscourseOleg Ananyin, Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia and Denis Melnik, Higher School of Economics University, RussiaChapter 9 The Rise and Fall of Socialist Market EconomyJože Mencinger, University of Ljubljana, SloveniaConclusion Reflections on an Oxymoron. The Sad Fate of the Concept of the Socialist MarketJános Mátyás Kovács, Institute for Human Sciences, Austria IndexAbout the editorAbout the Contributors