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Although the purpose of the present chapter is to compare the nature of market capitalism with that of command socialism, other types of economic system will not be disregarded either. It will be examined, too, how economic systems are related to political systems, and how the nature of economic and political systems affects the position and role of trade unions.
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See e.g. Gregory Grossman, Economic Systems (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1967), pp. 13–16
John Hicks, A Theory of Economic History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982, reprinted).
The term ‘socialist’ is used here in a specific and narrow sense. Socialism has many definititions, and as one author opined, its identity is elusive. R.N. Berki, Socialism (London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1975) p. 10.
Command capitalism is sometimes called corporatism. (See eg. R.E. Pahl and J.T. Winkler, ‘The coming corporatism’, New Society (10 October 1974), pp. 72–6, The concept of corporatism was also discussed by David Lane, State and Politics in the USSR (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985) pp. 26–4.
See eg. Charles E. Lindblom, Politics and Markets: The World’s Political-Economic Systems (New York: Basic Books, 1977) p. 116 and Chapter 12.
T.H. Rigby, ‘A Conceptual Approach to Authority, Power and Policy in the Soviet Union’, in T.H. Rigby, Archie Brown and Peter Reddaway (eds), Authority, Power and Policy in the USSR (London: Macmillan, 1980) p. 19
V.I. Lenin, Selected Works (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1951) vol. II, part 1, pp. 251 and 304–5.
Morris Bornstein, ‘Unemployment in Capitalist Regulated Market Economies and Socialist Centrally Planned Economies’, The American Economic Review, vol. 68, no.2 (May 1978), pp. 38–43.
See also Karl W. Deutsch, Politics and Government: How People Decide Their Fate (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970) p. 198.
Stephen Smith, Britain’s Shadow Economy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986) pp. 1 and 11.
Some estimates of the extent of the second economy in the West are quoted by Gerald Mars, Cheats at Work: An Anthropology of Workplace Crime (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1982) pp. 11–17.
On subsidies in the GDR, Poland and the Soviet Union see Hermann Clement, ‘CMEA Economic Performance in the 1970s’, in NATO, Economics and Information Directorates, The CMEA Five — Year Plans (1981–1985) in a New Perspective: Planned and Non-Planned Economies, (Brussels, 1982) p. 53, Table XXI.
John E. Elliott, Comparative Economic Systems, (Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1985, second edition) p. 198, Table 10–10.
J.L. Porket, ‘Participation in Management in Communist Systems in the 1970s’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. XIII, no.3 (1975), pp. 371–387;
J.L. Porket, ‘Industrial Relations and Participation in Management in the Soviet-type Communist System’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. XVI, no. 1 (1978), pp. 70–85;
Alex Pravda and Blair A. Ruble (eds.), Trade Unions in Communist States (London: Allen & Unwin, 1986).
The Hungarian case was discussed by Stephen Noti, ‘The Shifting Position of Hungarian Trade Unions Amidst Social and Economic Reforms’, Soviet Studies, vol. XXXIX, no. 1 (January 1987), pp. 63–87.
See also the distinction between contextuating and prescriptive controls as defined by Amitai Etzioni, The Active Society: A Theory of Societal and Political Processes (London: Collier-Macmillan, 1968) pp. 114–5 and 442–3.
János Kornai, Economics of Shortage (Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1980) vol. A, p. 27, Table 2.1.
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Porket, J.L. (1989). Types of Economic System. In: Work, Employment and Unemployment in the Soviet Union. St Antony’s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10930-2_1
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