Lessons from the failure of the communist economic system

Why have the neoliberal economic programmes aimed at transforming Eastern Europe to a market economy and democracy since 1989, not only experienced unanticipated difficulties but more importantly failed to achieve their expected progress? Dr Ladislav Rusmich and Dr Stephen M. Sachs offer a comprehensive and ...

El valor del socialismo

El valor del socialismo es una recopilación de textos publicados a lo largo de más de tres décadas, cuyos hilos cnductores son la constante y lúcida crítica de lo que no es socialismo, aunque se autodesigne como tal, y la defensa de la indisolubilidad de ...

Farm to factory

a reinterpretation of the soviet industrial revolution

To say that history's greatest economic experiment - Soviet communism - was also its greatest economic failure is to say what many consider obvious. Here, in a reinterpretation, Robert Allen argues that the USSR was one of the most successful developing economies of the 20th century ...

Sobre la democracia económica

los modelos organizativos y el papel del trabajo. Volumen III

This is Cuba

an outlaw culture survives

Transition and economics

politics, markets, and firms

The transition from socialism to capitalism in former socialist economies is one of the main economic events of the twentieth century. Not only does it affect the lives of approximately 1.65 billion people, but it is contributing to a shift in emphasis in economics ...

Whither socialism?

The rapid collapse of socialism has raised new economic policy questions and revived old theoretical issues. In this book, Joseph Stiglitz explains how the neoclassical model not only may have provided an inadequate framework for understanding market economies but may have wrongly encouraged the belief ...

La economía del socialismo factible

Tras la caída del muro de Berlín y la disolución de la Unión Soviética, es fácil comprobar que la economía del llamado socialismo real tuvo diversos problemas: ineficiencia, burocracia, despotismo jerárquico e incapacidad para asimilar las nuevas iniciativas. A menudo se ha pretendido achacar estas ...

Riqueza y pobreza

El acontecimiento más importante de la reciente historia de las ideas es la muerte del sueño socialista. Los sueños mueren siempre cuando se hacen realidad. Y cincuenta años de realidad socialista en experiencias bien diversas dejan poco espacio para las fantasías idealistas. En el mundo ...

Socialism

an economic and sociological analysis

This is a newly annotated edition of the classic first published in German in 1922. It is the definitive refutation of nearly every type of socialism ever devised. Mises presents a wide-ranging analysis of society, comparing the results of socialist planning with those of free- ...