Socialist Economic Development in the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9781032212227 / Miękka / 2023 / 374 str.

Elias Jabbour

Opis

Over a century after the first socialist revolution broke the global monopoly of capitalism, a new class of socialist-oriented socioeconomic development is coming. This book offers a balanced and historically rooted interpretation of the successes and failures of socialist economic construction throughout the last century.

Spis treści

Foreword by Francesco Schettino  Part I: Capitalism and Socialism as Modes of Production  1. Introduction to Part I  2. The hard scientific underpinnings of XXIth century political economy  3. Modes of production and socioeconomic formations  4. Labor and value  5. Real competition, pending issues and the core propositions of the surplus approach  6. Real socialism and the law of value  7. The Meta-Mode of Production  8. Socialism under the Meta Mode of Production  Part II: China’s journey from the early agricultural reforms to the New Projectment Economy  9. Introduction To Part II  10. Macroeconomic Dynamics  11. Rural reforms and the rise of  Non-Capitalist Market-Oriented Enterprises  12. The Large State-Owned Business Conglomerates  13. The National Financial System And The Strengthening of China’s Monetary Sovereignty  14. The dynamics of the new economic and social formation  15. NDRC and SASAC: a quantum leap in China’s planning and governance capabilities  16. The New Projectment Economy  Part III: The other two members of the new class of SEF: Vietnam and Laos  17. Introduction to part III  18. Agricultural reforms and the launching of Doi Moi  19. Equitization
20. SOE, FDI, and simple commodity production  21. Employment, wages, and productivity  22. Accumulation, growth, and structural change  23. Finance  24. Development of productive forces and modernization in Vietnam and China  25. Poverty, inequality and human development  26. The differences between comrades Masina and Cerimele and us  27. Vietnam and China: brothers, not twins  28. Laos: the least developed member of the new class of SEFs 
29. Concluding Remarks

O autorze

Alberto Gabriele is a Senior Researcher at Sbilanciamoci, Rome, Italy.

Elias Jabbour is an Assistant Professor at the School of Economics, at Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil.