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This is a review article of D.B.J. Schouten's new book “Macht en wanorde, Een vergelijking van economische stelsels” (Power and Disorder, A Comparison of Economic Systems). After having summarised the book's contents, three points are discussed: (a) does the book offer a comparison of economic systems as its subtitle suggests; (b) how does Schouten's theory relate to disequilibrium analysis and does it give a better understanding of disequilibria than disequilibrium analysis; (c) is Schouten's proposal of a centrally-guided rate of return policy indeed to be preferred above a centrally-guided wage policy in order to overcome the basic problem in capitalist market economies of slow and sometimes perverse adjustments?
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D.B.J. Schouten,Macht en wanorde, Een vergelijking van economische stelsels, (Power and Disorder, A Comparison of Economic Systems), H.E. Stenfert Kroese b.v., Leiden/Antwerpen, 1980: Pp. 270. Dfl. 47,50.
I am indebted to Professor Th. van de Klundert for useful comments.
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Kuipers, S.K. Disequilibrium, power and economic systems. De Economist 129, 546–557 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01460439
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