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Three Essays On The Past And Future Of Socialism, Mihnea Tudoreanu
Three Essays On The Past And Future Of Socialism, Mihnea Tudoreanu
Doctoral Dissertations
The idea of economic planning and state ownership of the means of production, which had been central to socialist economic thought for a century and a half, suddenly fell out of favor even among socialists after the fall of the Soviet Union. The three essays of this dissertation are in essence critiques of this 21st century orthodoxy. The first essay addresses the idea of market socialism, as proposed by several academic works in the decades before and after the fall of the USSR. The essay questions whether market socialism would be substantially different from capitalism in practice. It aims to …