A01=Henryk Flakierski
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Andreas Papandreou
Author_Henryk Flakierski
Author_Thomas T. Sekine
Brezhnev era stagnation
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Civil Society
comparative economic systems
Eastern European transition
EEC Council
EEC Membership
Efficiency Wage Theory
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Equal Stomachs
Goal Internalization
High Capital Labor Ratios
ICP Data
income equality models
Iron Fist
Large Income Differentials
Left Union Leadership
Mixed Socialist Economy
neo-conservatism
Panhellenic Socialist Movement
PASOK Government
Peer Group Size
Personal Incentives
political economy theory
post-Keynesian analysis
Property Rights School
Qualitative Goods
Skill Differentials
social democracy
socialism
socialist dilemmas
socialist economic reforms debate
Socioeconomic Development
Spanish Level
Vice Versa
Yugoslav Firm
Yugoslav Self-management System
Product details
- ISBN 9780873326872
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Oct 1990
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book, consisting of eight related articles, deals with several dimensions of socialism in the 1980s just before the beginning of the great changes which took place in Eastern Europe. Profound changes in the political economy of the world in the 1970s led to a decline of over-confidence and over-optimism characteristic of the earlier times both in the West and in the East. The painful experience of stagnation ended the grand Keynesian dream and led to the return of neo-conservatism in the West. The disappointing pace of industrial and technological progress during the Brezhnev era and increasing shortages of productivity of communism in the East. With both sides in the grip of political and economic uncertainties, the ideological confrontation seemed to have lost much of its sharp edge. No longer did the accepted dogmas and ideologies of the past appear either valid or convincing. The presupposition of the debate on comparative economic systems were in need of fundamental revisions. It was in this perspective that the Political Economy Workshop at York University undertook to feature a series of lectures on socialism in its 1988 sessions. Of about a dozen presentations by York University scholars and invited speakers, eight were subsequently made available in the form of articles and are published in this volume. These articles cover a wide range of issues, both theoretical and practical, and from both the Western and the Eastern perspective. It is recognized by all authors that neither the East European experiments in communism nor the Western process into social democracy have been a great success. The clue to what might lie beyond the socialist dilemmas in the age of perestroika will be found only by going through once again to the circumstances which led to the failure of socialism thus far.
Henryk Flakierski, Thomas T. Sekine
