Interactions Between the Planner, Managers and Workers in Centrally Planned Economies
Interactions Between the Planner, Managers and Workers in Centrally Planned Economies

Author: Joop de Kort

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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The coordination of decision making has always been an important topic for politicians, business people, and scientists alike. The experiment in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to build a centrally planned economy provides an excellent example to study the possibilities and limitations of planned coordination. In this study, the author focuses on the interaction between several actors in a centrally planned economy, stressing the dominant position of the planner. An historical essay on the organization of production in the Soviet Union is combined with several theoretical insights. This forms the basis for the argument that the planner's reluctance to take the preferences and the strategies of others in society are essential explaining why the socialist experiment failed.

Introduction to Business
Introduction to Business

Author: Lawrence J. Gitman

Publisher:

Published: 2024-09-16

Total Pages: 1455

ISBN-13:

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Introduction to Business covers the scope and sequence of most introductory business courses. The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change. Introduction to Business includes hundreds of current business examples from a range of industries and geographic locations, which feature a variety of individuals. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of business concepts, with attention to the knowledge and skills necessary for student success in this course and beyond. This is an adaptation of Introduction to Business by OpenStax. You can access the textbook as pdf for free at openstax.org. Minor editorial changes were made to ensure a better ebook reading experience. Textbook content produced by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Human Rights in Russia and Eastern Europe
Human Rights in Russia and Eastern Europe

Author: Ferdinand J.M. Feldbrugge

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-10-18

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 900448020X

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The introduction of a market economy in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe required an enormous legislative effort, in order to create the regulatory framework for a vast array of new economic activities. The resulting statutory materials in turn gave rise to numerous books and articles, by domestic lawyers from the countries concerned, as well as by foreign scholars. By comparison, the other part of the legal diptych - the establishment of the rule of law - has received less attention from academic commentators. The purpose of this volume is to correct the balance to some extent, especially by looking at various aspects of legal reform through the prism of human rights. The legal implementation of a respect for human rights turns out to be an even more comprehensive and pervasive enterprise than creating the legal framework for a market economy. A number of important areas of law are highlighted in this volume; the emphasis is, although not exclusively, on the Russian Federation.

Democratic Economic Planning
Democratic Economic Planning

Author: Robin Hahnel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-05-31

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1000392112

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Democratic Economic Planning presents a concrete proposal for how to organize, carry out, and integrate comprehensive annual economic planning, investment planning, and long-run development planning so as to maximize popular participation, distribute the burdens and benefits of economic activity fairly, achieve environmental sustainability, and use scarce productive resources efficiently. The participatory planning procedures proposed provide workers in self-managed councils and consumers in neighbourhood councils with autonomy over their own activities while ensuring that they use scarce productive resources in socially responsible ways without subjecting them to competitive market forces. Certain mathematical and economic skills are required to fully understand and evaluate the planning procedures discussed and evaluated in technical sections in a number of chapters. These sections are necessary to advance the theory of democratic planning, and should be of primary interest to readers who have those skills. However, the book is written so that the main argument can be followed without fully digesting the more technical sections. Democratic Economic Planning is written for dreamers who are disenamored with the economics of competition and greed want to know how a system of equitable cooperation can be organized; and also for sceptics who demand "hard proof" that an economy without markets and private enterprise is possible.

Enterprise Reforms in a Centrally Planned Economy
Enterprise Reforms in a Centrally Planned Economy

Author: Zhang Xun-Hai

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1992-06-18

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1349121975

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Seeks to analyze China's industrial reform in the 1980s by examining the Chinese bicycle industry. It sets the changes since 1978 into historical perspective by giving an account of the development of this industry.

Parecon
Parecon

Author: Michael Albert

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 178960947X

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'What do you want?' is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation and degradation. In this highly praised new work, destined to attract worldwide attention and support, Michael Albert provides an answer: Participatory Economics, 'Parecon' for short, a new economy, an alternative to capitalism, built on familiar values including solidarity, equity, diversity and people democratically controlling their own lives, but utilizing original institutions fully described and defended in the book.

Macroeconomic Management
Macroeconomic Management

Author: Christopher Saunders

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1988-06-18

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1349083755

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Papers by academics and administrators from East and West are contained in this volume. Recent macroeconomic policies in the West and the East are examined and new strategies for dealing with economic problems are analyzed.