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| | Encyclopedia: Market socialism |
 | | Market socialism is an economic system in which the means of production are owned by the workers in each company (meaning in general that "profits" in each company are distributed between them: profit sharing) and the production is not centrally planned but mediated through the market. | | | One of the principal advocates of market socialism in the United States is philosopher David Schweickart, whose version of market socialism is called "Economic Democracy". | | | A free market is an idealized market, where all economic decisions and actions by individuals regarding transfer of money, goods, and services are voluntary, and are therefore devoid of coercion and theft (some definitions of coercion are inclusive of theft). |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Market-socialism
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| | Socialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Social welfare and unemployment insurance are mandated by law in the US, UK, Canada and other market economies. | | | Many non-socialists use the expression "socialist economy" (or "socialization" of a sector of the economy) almost exclusively to refer to centralized control under government aegis: for example, consider the use of the term "socialized medicine" in the US by opponents of single-payer health care. | | | Social democracy typically involves state ownership of some corporations (considered strategically important to the people) and some participation in ownership of the means of production by workers. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism
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| | Post-Lange Market Socialism |
| | Under pragmatic market socialism, the BPO would be explicitly prohibited from issuing any operating instructions whatsoever to the managing executives regarding the microeconomic decision variables of business enterprise: production levels, prices, marketing expenditures, retained earnings, investment expenditures, and so on. | | | Profit-oriented market socialism also specifies that the managers of publicly owned corporations will be basically responsible not to the employees of the corporations but rather to outside public ownership agencies themselves responsible to the general public. | | | In this case, the drastic reduction in the "retention coefficient" as between capitalism and market socialism does not have a significant impact on the level of capital management effort provided to the economy, and hence on the efficiency of the economy. |
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http://www.wiu.edu/users/miecon/wiu/yunker/postlang.htm
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| | However, the market inevitably generates inequality and the accumulation of capital, and even more seriously, commodity production and the day-to-day activity entailed in buying and selling oneself on the market is the very ground on which bourgeois ideology grows. | | | “Market socialism” means a proletarian democratic regime in which the mass of the population implements socialist measures within an economy based on commodity production, while accumulation of capital is somehow kept in check. | | | Generally speaking, the conception of “market socialism” is counterposed to the conception of “socialism” exemplified by the Soviet Union, i.e., a conception of “socialism” as a giant state enterprise run by a top-down bureaucracy with those at the bottom taking orders from those above. |
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http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/m/a.htm
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| | Market socialism : the debate among socialists |
| | Before defining market socialism, he specifies its context, its prerequisites : “the proletariat must be raised to the position of ruling class ; it must ‘win’ the battle of democracy … proletarian-state enterprises and bourgeois enterprises coexisting in a market context”’. | | | The market is not a technicality or a mechanism but a specific social relation of labour and capital. | | | The second characteristic of this model is that the mode of financing investment is not savings, but that “each enterprise must pay a tax on the capital assets” which “may be thought of as a rent paid to society for access to the collective property of society “. |
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http://www.ospaaal.org/corint/numero_4/eng_4/marksoc.htm
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| | Hayek and Market Socialism: Science, Ideology, and Public Policy - Mises Institute |
| | But in an unhampered market economy, the price system and the process of economic calculation will do all that can be reasonably expected from it to ensure the efficiency of economic arrangements and the constant prodding of economic actors to discover new and better ways to arrange their affairs. | | | Liberal economists are as concerned with the welfare of the poor as the socialist, but recognize the problems of interventionism and planning, and the power of the market to raise the living standards of the least advantage in society. | | | Finally, the work by scholars such as Barry Weingast (1995) on market preserving federalism is another example of where the argument for decentralized governance and fiscal federalism that Hayek made is inspiring new theoretical presentation and empirical investigation. |
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http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?Id=1661
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| | MARKET SOCIALISM |
| | MARKET SOCIALISM: Given the failures of central planning and the socialization of all three factors of production in the USSR and elsewhere, there has been a renewed interest in a form of socialism which allows a limited market in capital as well as goods and services. | | | The solution in capitalist terms is simply to go on the labor market and sell your labor to whomever will buy it...each person is to prepare his/her labor skills and compete freely with every other person for positions open on the job market. | | | Child care, medical services for the elderly, education and the arts are neglected in a market system even if they are profitable...when profits else- where are higher. |
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http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/RED_FEATHER/lectures/027MarketSocialism.htm
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| | Market Socialism discussion in NLR (by L. Proyect) |
| | The first type assumes that since cost and investment decisions are objective, the market can adjust to supply and demand even if the ownership is collective. | | | Since the use of existing capacity by enterprises engaging in market exchange on a decentralized basis, the danger of administrative overload is minimized." Whew, what a relief. | | | There is much more attention paid to market socialism than the planned variety. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/economics/nlr_market.htm
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| | Free Market, by Murray N. Rothbard: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty |
| | As even socialists like Robert Heilbroner now admit (see Socialism), the socialist planning board therefore has no way to calculate prices or costs or to invest capital so that the latticework of production meshes and clears. | | | The key to socialism, on the other hand, is government ownership of the means of production, land, and capital goods. | | | But as a society develops, a step-by-step process of mutual benefit creates a situation in which one or two broadly useful and valuable commodities are chosen on the market as a medium of indirect exchange. |
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http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/FreeMarket.html
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| | Monthly Review: The contradictions of market socialism |
| | For Kalecki, these problems are inherent in the way market forces operate, so that even the most rational decisions by capitalists are constrained by their sales revenue, capacity utilization, and retained profits (which allow entrepreneurs to finance investment with less risk than borrowed money or rentiers' funds). | | | The main problem of socialism, in their view, was how to maximize investment in order to achieve a better material standard of living for all citizens. | | | The chief problem of capitalism, according to Kalecki, is market instability, and the most damaging form of instability is the business cycle in which, at best, full employment is achieved only temporarily at the peak of a boom, so that unemployment persists most of the time under capitalism. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1132/is_n11_v46/ai_16842016
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| | Philosophy and Economics of Market Socialism: A Critical Study, The |
| | Arnold establishes, with immense skill at careful argument, that market socialism is far inferior in economic efficiency to the free enterprise system. | | | Given asset specificity, it is important for market participants to build close relations with particular suppliers and consumers; they become tied-in to firms whose production is exactly suited to their needs. | | | Arnold is a philosopher, not an economist; and what principally concerns him is the justice of free enterprise and market socialism. |
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http://www.news.mises.org/misesreview_detail.asp?control=136&sortorder=issue
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| | From the Left: Winter '95 |
| | Environment concerns are met better by market socialism: capitalism tends to 'externalize' costs to workers, customers, the state and to the environment. | | | Thompson says that market socialism would be more likely to survive it debt could exceed assets and if interest could vary... | | | Risk is socialized; greater balance between public and private investment devolves; full employment can be built into such a plan; destructive export policies in food and unsafe products can be avoided; workplace safety and environmental concerns can be met. |
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http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/RED_FEATHER/fromleft/winter95.htm
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| | Market socialism - definition of Market socialism in Encyclopedia |
| | Market socialist systems also allow private ownership and entrepreneurship in the service and other secondary economic sectors. | | | As a result, the Chinese Communist Party has been able to redefine socialism and to argue that socialism is not incompatible with economic policies such as private ownership of the means of production, free markets, neoliberal globalization, or anything else for that matter. | | | The market is allowed to determine prices for consumer goods and agricultural products and farmers and sometimes other producers are allowed to sell all or some of their products on the open market and keep some or all of the profit as an incentive to increased and improved production. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Market_socialism
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| | market socialism -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | also called liberal socialism economic system representing a compromise between socialist planning and free enterprise, in which enterprises are publicly owned but production and consumption are guided by market forces rather than by government planning. | | | system of social organization in which property and the distribution of income are subject to social control rather than individual determination or market forces. | | | A welfare state, on the other hand, is one in which the government undertakes to offer... |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9051012
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| | Market Socialism: The Debate Among Socialists |
| | "The Marxist answers that market socialism cannot exist because it involves limiting the incentive system of the market through providing minimum wages, high levels of unemployment insurance, reducing the size of the reserve army of labor, taxing profits, and taxing the wealthy. | | | Schweickart earns partial clemency from this verdict: he is at least acquainted with the rudiments of economic thought. | | | (By this he means that in capitalism, the value of a good is the socially necessary labor-time needed to produce it.) Socialism abolishes the law of value, and abundance now comes into being. |
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http://www.news.mises.org/misesreview_detail.asp?control=88&sortorder=issue
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| | The Socialist Calculation Debate |
| | Even if we see them as parameters for decision-makers, then whether they are provided by a central planner or by a market is irrelevant as long as managers of state enterprises are given instructions to act as cost-minimizers. | | | With the crushing poverty of the industrial revolution as evidence, Socialists, Marxians and other critics of laissez-faire argued that free markets had, in effect, failed and that a benevolent government with control over the means of production and distribution, could allocate goods in a more efficient and equitable manner. | | | The issue of "finding" correct prices and the stability of the market were remarkable: let the government act as the mythical Walrasian "auctioneer" - searching for prices via tatonnement. |
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http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/essays/paretian/social.htm
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| | Market Socialism |
| | The general conclusion is that the structure of the economic organizations in a market socialist system (self-managed cooperatives which rent all of their capital from the state) permit and encourage forms of exploitation that the characteristic organizations of a free enterprise system either prevent or discourage. | | | The reason for this is that it would permit or encourage widespread exploitation--forms of exploitation that are prevented or discouraged in a capitalist or free enterprise system. | | | Chapters 6 and 7 offer a comparative evaluation of market socialist and free enterprise systems on the question of exploitation. |
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http://www.uab.edu/philosophy/faculty/arnold/marksoc.htm
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| | Socialist Planning or“Market Socialism” |
| | The market is the site and mechanism of exchange: buying and selling between individuals and between individual units of capital (companies, corporations, etc.). | | | The problem— and this is built in to the market mechanism —is that the market doesn't register the long-term and social effects of economic activity. | | | Quiet as it is kept, the most fundamental market transaction under capitalism is the sale and purchase of labor power. |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Whither Socialism? (Wicksell Lectures) |
| | Markets could be permitted to function to the degree necessary to generate prices, which central planners could use to direct the economy. | | | Stiglitz further argues that the most critical information planners need, to plan large scale investments, are not generated by markets anyway, because the appropriate futures markets (where investors could insure against bad investments) can not exist. | | | He correctly observes that firms operate internally without a price system, but he also fails to observe that individual firms are small in comparison to the market, which is what allows firms to calculate how resources are used internally. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0262691825?v=glance
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| | Hostboard.com, Your Message Board Partner:: Post-Lange market Socialism |
| | To be honest, I think market socialism of the types there described are actually less progressive than the present social democratic reforms which have been placed over the top of capitalism, particularly in respect to nations which still have a sharply graduated income tax. | | | My thoughts were that "bank-centric" market socialism would most suit the needs of the public. | | | But my ideas about socialism have always centered around direct worker-ownership and self-management regardless of the precise arrangements of the market. |
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http://www.hostboard.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1019&t=121
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| | Mark Byron |
| | Here's a possible solution, if the church's assets are needed to pay all the legal bills-put the current assets (or a large chunk of those assets) of the Archdiocese, including title to the church buildings, in a trust fund. | | | He also proposed eliminating the capital gains tax on the first $100 million worth of stock issued by technology companies and allowing small businesses to defer up to $250,000 of federal taxes if the money is reinvested in the business. | | | The first is that the European systems assumes that it is the government's job to look after the individual while the American assumption is that the individual can largely fend for themselves. |
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http://markbyron.blogspot.com/2002_12_01_markbyron_archive.html
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| | Has John Roemer Resurrected Market Socialism?: The Independent Review: The Independent Institute |
| | In his recent book, A Future for Socialism, economist John Roemer claims to have created a model of market socialism immune to the Austrian criticism that economic coordination requires free-market pricing, profit-and-loss incentives, capital markets and private property. | | | Has John Roemer Resurrected Market Socialism?: The Independent Review: The Independent Institute | | | Underneath Roemer’s numerous contradictions and misunderstandings lies a profoundly mistaken belief that market competition can be made compatible with coercive egalitarianism. |
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http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?issueID=32&articleID=397
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| | Greenwood Publishing Group I1 |
| | Pragmatic market socialism would be a means of enhancing economic justice and fairness without sacrificing the efficiency advantages of free enterprise and the market economy. | | | As James A. Yunker envisions it, pragmatic market socialism would virtually duplicate the everyday economic functions of market capitalist economies, such as the United States' economy. | | | However, public ownership of large, established corporations would enable profits to be distributed among the entire labor force rather than going largely to a class of inheriting rentiers. |
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http://info.greenwood.com/books/0275941/0275941345.html
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| | Magdoff versus Belkin on market socialism (by L. Proyect) |
| | He always found himself haggling over budget allocations, etc. But this had nothing to do with socialism. | | | Like most DSA'ers, his politics can best be described as liberal Democrat with lip-service to a socialism somewhere in the distant future. | | | Socialism is a break with all the old models of political, social and economic behavior. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/economics/magdoff_vs_belkin.htm
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Equal Shares: Making Market Socialism Work |
| | Use Your Account to view or change your orders | | | Amazon.ca: Books: Equal Shares: Making Market Socialism Work | | | Look for books like Equal Shares: Making Market Socialism Work by subject: |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859849334
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| | The Militant - 7/1/96 -- Cuba Meeting Debates `Market Socialism' |
| | In the Havana and Holguín conferences, debates unfolded on the issue of "market socialism," the reliance on capitalist economic methods in workers states. | | | Luis Aguilera, vice rector of the University of Holguín, rejected the "market socialism" perspective. | | | He and others argued that a fight was needed against "neoliberal" economic policies, referring to so-called free-trade agreements and privatization. |
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http://www.themilitant.com/1996/6026/6026_20.html
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| | New Statesman & Society: Socialism After Communism: The New Market Socialism.(book reviews)@ HighBeam Research |
| | Socialism After Communism: The New Market Socialism.(book reviews) | | | As Labour's debate over Clause 4 unfolded, it seemed that the modernisers increasingly sought to Jettison not just nationalisation or central planning, but the original ambition common to Marxists and social democrats alike: to exercise some political control over economic life. | | | New Statesman & Society: Socialism After Communism: The New Market Socialism.(book reviews)@ HighBeam Research |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28576396&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf
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