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Modern Economic Systems and Their Transformation
J. L. Porket
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Description for Modern Economic Systems and Their Transformation
Hardback. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 335 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 31. Weight in Grams: 581.
Societies, whether traditional or modern, experience tension between spontaneity (individual freedom) and control (regulation). Consequently, economies as a subsystem of society experience it too. More specifically, they experience a tension between economic individualism and economic collectivism, which in modern economies revolves around the role of the state in the economy. Since the collapse of communism, this tension has manifested itself not as a tension between market capitalism and command socialism but as a tension between the free market and the interventionist variants of market capitalism. Although currently economic and political liberalization is in evidence worldwide, not only in post-communist societies, ... Read more
Societies, whether traditional or modern, experience tension between spontaneity (individual freedom) and control (regulation). Consequently, economies as a subsystem of society experience it too. More specifically, they experience a tension between economic individualism and economic collectivism, which in modern economies revolves around the role of the state in the economy. Since the collapse of communism, this tension has manifested itself not as a tension between market capitalism and command socialism but as a tension between the free market and the interventionist variants of market capitalism. Although currently economic and political liberalization is in evidence worldwide, not only in post-communist societies, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
335
Condition
New
Series
St Antony's Series
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312213244
SKU
V9780312213244
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About J. L. Porket
J.L. PORKET is a Senior Associate at St Antony's College, Oxford. He specialises in economics and economic sociology. He is Czech by origin, and left Czechoslovakia in 1969. He was formerly a research fellow at the Prague School of Economics. He has published in both Czech and English on communist systems in Europe and the Soviet Union and post-communist transformations. ... Read more
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