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by János Matyas Kovács (Editor, Contributor)
About the Author
János Mátyás Kovács is permanent fellow at Institute for Human Sciences, senior lecturer at Eötvös Lorand University, and guest professor at Central European University
About this book
This edited volume opening the new series Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic Thought in Historical Perspective focuses on the concepts of ownership, the cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies. The authors’ main objective is to contribute to the still unwritten chapter on collectivism in the history books of modern economic thought. They trace the lengthy evolution of economic ideas of property reform under communism leading from the doctrine of blanket nationalization to projects of moderate privatization in eight countries of Eastern Europe and China.
The comparative analysis sheds light upon the tireless attempts of reform-minded econo-mists in communist countries to populate the no man’s land of “social property” with quasi-private economic actors such as bodies of workers’ self-management and managers of state-owned companies. For a long time, these were expected to crowd out the communist nomenklatura from its actual ownership position without challenging the primacy of collective property rights. The fact that even the most radical reformers came to the conclusion that such surrogate owners would not be able to break the power of the ruling elite only on the eve of the 1989 revolutions demonstrates the immense strength of collectivist ideas. The authors coin the term “trap of collectivism” to warn those demanding nationalization or other forms of non-private ownership today: it is rather easy, even with the best intentions, to walk into this trap but it may take long decades to break out from it.
Brief contents
Introduction: Why Communism? Why Ownership? 1
1 From Nationalization to Nowhere: Ownership in Bulgarian Economic Thought, 1944–1989 23
2 From Control of the Commanding Heights to Control of the Whole Economy and Back: Chinese Ownership Theories Since 1949 47
3 From Nationalization to Privatization: Understanding the Concept of Ownership in Czechoslovakia, 1948–1990 87
4 Ownership under East-German Communism—A One-Way Street 113
5 From Two to One (And Only)?: Theorizing Ownership in Communist Hungary 143
6 From Soviet-Type Ownership through Self-Management to Privatization: Debating Ownership in Communist Poland 173
7 The Silence of the Herd: Exploring Ownership Concepts in Communist Romania 207
8 Fighting Dogma, Rescuing Doctrine: Toward a History of Ownership Debates in Soviet Economic Literature 231
9 Social Property and the Market: An Uneasy Symbiosis in Yugoslavia 261
Conclusion: Expeditions to No Man’s Land. Comparing Economic Concepts of Ownership under Communism: An Evolutionary View 287
Index 341
About the Contributors 355
Series: Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic and Political Thought in Historical Perspective
Pages: 368
Publisher: Lexington Books (September 15, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1498539211
ISBN-13: 978-1498539210
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