The new common wealth [[electronic resource] ] : from bureaucratic corporatism to socialist capitalism / / Claudiu A. Secara

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780163703321
• Autore: Secara Claudiu A (Claudiu Adrian)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Algora Pub., c1997
• ISBN: 1-280-34642-6; 9786610346424; 1-892941-19-8
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.12/2
• Soggetti: Capitalism - History; Socialism - History; Bureaucracy - History; State, The - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-288) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER I - THE SOCIAL MARKET; Social Market Capitalism; The Accounting Nature of Capitalism; Closed vs. Open Capitalist Systems; Individualistic vs. Communitarian Capitalism; Forms of Socialized Capitalism; The Profit Motive; Social Capitalism; The Social Market Commonwealth; CHAPTER II - THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT; The International Power Market; The German Way; The American Way; The Russian Way; The Interconnected World System; The Mediterranean Ecosystem; European Inland Farming; The Affluent Farming Societies; The Emergence of the Military-Industrial CorporationThe Anglo-Saxons and the Slavs; The Battle over Europe; The Balkanization of the World; CHAPTER III - THE QUESTION OF ECONOMIC MODELS; The Interventionist Philosophy; The Traditional Centrally Planned Model; To Reform or Not to Reform; Internal Factors of Decline; External Factors of Decline; In Pursuit of Capitalism with a Human Face; Reforms and Their Results; Motivation vs. Management; The Ambiguities of Decentralization; Market Competition under Central Planning; International Markets - National Competition; Managed Social Markets; CHAPTER IV - THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE COLD WAR INDUSTRIESThe American Pursuit of a Military Economy; The Air Industry; The Air Industry's Support Industry; Soviet Union's Militarized Economy; Détente; CHAPTER V - THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC SCENE; The Soviet Union's Dramatic Decline; The United States' Deteriorating Leadership; Labor Shortages in the Modern Economy; Russian-Style Industrialization; The Russian Agricultural Revolution; Leveraging Labor through Service Automation; Reinventing the Feudal Work System; The Industrial Technocracy; The Historical Curve toward Global Market Socialism; CHAPTER VI - PITFALLS OF A COMPETITIVE MARKETThe Market Economy and Privatization; "Free Market" without Markets; Growing Transatlantic Trade Disputes; European Investments vs. American Investments; Similarites in the Former Comecon Countries' Reforms; Playing the Market along with the Socialist Nomenklatura; Playing Socialism at the Stock Market; The Concept of Managed Markets; CHAPTER VII - THE INVISIBLE REVOLUTION; Ownership Distribution in the United States; Employee Stock Ownership Programs; In Pursuit of an Industrial Policy with a Capitalist Face; A Historical Framework; The French Auto IndustryThe Japanese Semiconductor Industry; The German Steel Industry; The United States' Experience; CHAPTER VIII - THE MAKING OF EURASIA; Convergence within Europe; The Thaw, Finally; Events within Regularities - the Cycle of History; The Aristotelianism of Global Politics; Soft vs. Hard Style Management; Hypothesizing on the Future; Intelligentsia in Power; The Birth of Euroslavia; NOTES; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Russia will compromise both models-the old communist orthodoxy and casino capitalism-then it can become the dominant power in a Eurasian commonwealth within a new world order quite different from what most Americans imagine." - Booklist