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  • A History of Slovak Economic Thought

    by Julius Horváth ...
    Series series The Routledge History of Economic Thought
    Slovakia has a rich and complex history, but until now there has not been a comprehensive analysis of the nation’s economic thought. This volume expertly fills this gap and traces the development of Slovak economic thought from the sixteenth century to the present day.Identifying key themes, moments, and thinkers, the chapters in this work consider the evolution of Slovak economic ideas and ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to the History of Economic Thought in Central Europe

    by Julius Horvath ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book addresses the comparative history of economic thought in Central European countries where there is a notable common historic heritage and political traits. The author explores issues of Central European identity, Habsburgian and Soviet influence, and nationalistic traditions, and reveals commonalities between Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak economic thought: such similarities proceed ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Reforming Communism, Refusing Capitalism

    The Rise and Fall of the Concept of “Socialist Market”

    by Dr. János Mátyás Kovács, Dr. Pencho D. Penchev, Dr. Sheng Peng, Julius Horváth, Hans-Jürgen Wagener, Dr. Piotr Korys, Valentin Cojanu, Oleg Ananyin, Denis Melnik, Jože Mencinger0, Maciej Tyminski1 ...
    Series series Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic and Political Thought in Historical Perspective
    Reforming Communism, Refusing Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of the Concept of "Socialist Market" focuses on the concept of “socialist market,: a cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies undergoing economic reforms from the 1950s onward. Encouraged by the success of non-capitalist mixed economies, market reformers (also called 'market socialists') offered the communist ruling ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Populating No Man’s Land

    Economic Concepts of Ownership under Communism

    by Oleg Ananyin, Roumen Avramov, Fan Shitao, Julius Horváth, Denis Melnik, Jože Mencinger, Gabriel Mursa, Vlad Pa?ca, Franz Rudolph, Vítezslav Sommer, Maciej Tyminski0, Hans-Jürgen Wagener1, Dr. János Mátyás Kovács2 ...
    Series series Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic and Political Thought in Historical Perspective
    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 ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • Communist Planning versus Rationality

    Mathematical Economics and the Central Plan in Eastern Europe and China

    by Andrei Belykh, Maciej Bukowski, Valentin Cojanu, Kaloyan Ganev, Julius Horvath, Gergely Kohegyi, Xiuli Liu, Udo Ludwig, Wojciech Maciejewski, Joze Mencinger, Stefan Petranov0, Grigore Ioan Pirosca1, Minghui Qin2, Knut Richter3, Hans-Jurgen Wagener4, Xin Xiang5, Shan Zheng6, Roumen Avramov7, Dr. János Mátyás Kovács8 ...
    Series series Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic and Political Thought in Historical Perspective
    This volume examines concepts of central planning, a cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies. It revolves around the theory of “optimal planning” which promised a profound modernization of Stalinist-style verbal planning. Encouraged by cybernetic dreams in the 1950s and supporting the strategic goals of communist leaders in the Cold War, optimal planners offered the ruling elites ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

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  • Understanding Socialism

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  • Communism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Leslie Holmes ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The collapse of communism was one of the most defining moments of the twentieth century. At its peak, more than a third of the world's population had lived under communist power. What is communism? Where did the idea come from and what attracted people to it? What is the future for communism? This Very Short Introduction considers these questions and more in the search to explore and understand ... Read more

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  • Maoism and the Chinese Revolution

    A Critical Introduction

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  • Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin

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    The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism

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  • From Peoples into Nations

    A History of Eastern Europe

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    A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to todayIn the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm. His intention was to forge a unified state from his vast and disparate possessions, but his action had the opposite effect, catalyzing the emergence of competing nationalisms among his Hungarian, ... Read more

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