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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786303603321

Autore

Nove Alec

Titolo

Socialism, economics, and development / / Alec Nove

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-58266-5

0-203-15621-8

1-283-84544-X

1-136-58267-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Collana

Routledge revivals

Disciplina

335.4

338.9

Soggetti

Marxian economics

Economic development

Soviet Union Economic policy 1981-1985

Soviet Union Economic conditions 1975-1985

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published in 1986 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd"--T.p. verso.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Socialism,Economics and Development; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Part One:Development; 1. The political economy of the Allende regime; 2.The explosive model; 3. The poverty of micro-economics: An essay on the relationship of theory and policy; Part Two: Problems of Marxist and Soviet Economics; 4.Marx, the market and 'feasible socialism'; 5. The economy of the USSR and Marxism: What socialist model?; 6.Trotsky, collectivization and the five-year plan; 7. Soviet economics and Soviet economists: some random observations; Part Three: The Contemporary Soviety Economy

8.The Soviet economy: problems and prospects9. Soviet agriculture in the 1980s; 10.The Soviet industrial enterprise; 11. The economic problems ofBrezhnev's successors; Part Four:Politics and Law; 12. Some aspects ofSoviet constitutional theory; 13. The class nature of the Soviet Union revisited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 1986, this text brings together a selection of papers written by the great Alec Nove on development economics, Marxist



economies, the Soviet economy, and law and politics in the Soviet Union. Reflecting the varied and diverse interests of its distinguished author, the topics range from Soviet constitutional law, to Trotsky's view of collectivization; from a critique of conventional micro-economics, to the economic disaster of the Allende regime in Chile. The author's long-standing immersion in the past and present of the Soviet Union helps to provide the unique ins