Bockman, Johanna.

Markets in the Name of Socialism : The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (354 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Interviewees -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Economists and Socialism -- 1: Neoclassical Economics and Socialism: From the Beginnings to 1953 -- 2: A New Transnational Discussion among Economists in the 1950s -- 3: Neoclassical Economics and Yugoslav Socialism -- 4: Goulash Communism and Neoclassical Economics in Hungary -- 5: The International Left, the International Right, and the Study of Socialism in Italy -- 6: Market Socialism or Capitalism? : The Transnational Critique of Neoclassical Economics and the Transitions of 1989 -- 7: Post-1989: How Transnational Socialism Became Neoliberalism without Ceasing to Exist -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Challenging conventional accounts, Markets in the Name of Socialism chronicles a transnational dialogue among economists on both sides of the Iron Curtain about democracy, socialism, and markets. These exchanges led to the transformations of 1989 and, unintentionally, the rise of neoliberalism.

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Neoliberalism -- History.
Neoclassical school of economics -- History.
Marxian economics -- History.
Socialism -- History.


Electronic books.

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