A Fourth Way?: Privatization, Property, and the Emergence of New Market Economies

ISBN-13: 9780415906982 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 336 str.

G. Alexander; Gregory S. Alexander

Opis

This collection on the privatization of property ownership seeks to explore the middle ground between state socialism and corporate capitalism. A Fourth Way? examines the transition to market economies in post-Communist Eastern Europe and considers Western experiences with alternative forms of ownership. The contributors to this study argue that neither the market alone nor state planning is adequate, in economic or moral terms, as the exclusive means to regulate the economy. Several essays focus on the impediments to the transition to market economies in Poland, Hungary and Germany. Others consider the problems of active participation, self-governance and domination involved in some forms of private ownership. The editors propose a new conception of property, and the possibility of a fourth way that mediates between classical liberalism and state socialism. They discuss new modes of ownership in the context of housing, industrial property and other areas of social life which avoid the unfortunate connotations associated in the past with the notion of a third way.

Spis treści

I: The Transition to Private Property—Legal Perspectives; The Challenge of Privatization in the Former East Germany: Reconciling the Conflict between Individual Rights and Social Needs; The Uneasy Breach with Socialized Ownership: Legal Aspects of Privatization of State-owned Enterprises in Poland; Pensioners in America: The Economic Triumph and Political Limitations of Passive Ownership; II: The Transition to Market Economy— Economic Perspectives; The Transition to a Market Economy in Russia: Property Rights, Mass Privatization and Stabilization; Stabilization versus Privatization in Poland: A Sequencing Problem at Macro- and Microeconomic Levels; The Private Provision of Public Goods: Principles and Implications; III: The Emerging Social Order of the New Market Economies; Privatization in Poland: The Evolution of Opinions and Interests, 1988–1992; Private Farm Ownership in a Changing Poland: Myth and Reality; Social Consciousness in Transition: Toward a New Economic and Political System; Beyond Constructivism and Rationality of Discovery: Economic Transformation and Institution-Building Processes; New Forms of State Ownership in Poland: The Case of Commercialization; Has State Ownership Truly Abandoned Socialism? The Survival of Socialist Economy and Law in Postcommunist Hungary; Privatization as a Gender Issue; IV: Toward A Fourth Way— Programmatic Statements; Neither the Market Nor the State: Housing Privatization Issues; Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives As A Mode of Privatization; Republicanism, Market Socialism, and the Third Way; Legal Theory and Democratic Reconstruction: Reflections on 1989

O autorze

Gregory S. Alexander, Grazyna Skapska