Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Bestseller
BestsellerE-Book
Author Roberts, Paul Craig, 1939- author.

Title Alienation and the Soviet Economy : The Collapse of the Socialist Era.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : Independent Institute, [2017]
©2017

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Farmington - Downloadable Materials  Freading Ebook    Downloadable
Farmington cardholders click here to access this title from Freading
 Newington - Downloadable Materials  Freading E-Book    Downloadable
Newington cardholders click here to access this title from Freading
 Rocky Hill - Downloadable Materials  Freading Ebook    Downloadable
Rocky Hill cardholders click here to access this title from Freading
 Wethersfield - Downloadable Materials  FreadingEbook    Downloadable
Wethersfield cardholders click here to access this title from Freading
 Windsor Locks - Downloadable Materials  Freading Ebook    Downloadable
Windsor Locks cardholders click here to access this title from Freading
Description 1 online resource (152 pages)
Series Independent studies in political economy
Access Access limited to subscribing institutions.
Summary The first edition of this seminal book in 1971 pointed out the fatal defects of Marxist theory that would lead to the collapse of the Soviet economy. In this revised edition, Paul Craig Roberts examines how reality triumphed over Marxist theory and the implications for the future of Russia and eastern Europe. In 1971, Roberts created a firestorm among professional Sovietologists by proclaiming that the economies of the USSR and its East Bloc allies were doomed because their planned economies were, in reality, anything but planned. Expanding on his original ideas, Roberts demonstrates in this book the fatal shortcomings of Marxist economies, ranging from misallocation of resources to ersatz capitalistic concepts grafted onto a system that calls for production without regard to profit. Roberts argues that the economies of the nations emerging from the USSR's collapse must grasp the profound truths in this book if they are to become viable.
Note Print version record.
Subject Alienation (Social psychology)
Marxian economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.
Soviet Union -- Economic policy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Roberts, Paul Craig, 1939- Alienation and the Soviet economy. New York : Holmes & Meier, 1990. 0841912475 (cl. : acid-free paper) (DLC)90005046
ISBN 9781598132977 (epub)
Standard No. 9781598132977
-->
Add a Review