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In the last years of the Soviet Union, it suddenly became commonplace to claim that what the country needed was a free market, private property and integration into the global economy. But why should this consciousness dawn in our day? This book examines the issues and aims to answer that question.
List of contents
PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, PART I THE DEEMED CERTITUDES, CHAPTER 1 PROPERTY: THE THEORY, 1.1 The Godly Origins, 1.2 The Father Figure of Hegel, 1.3 Marx: The View, 1.4 Marx: The Project, CHAPTER 2 AN OUTCOME, 2.1 War Communism, 2.2 The New Economic Policy, 2.3 A Socialism of Barracks, 2.4 A Review Aborted, PART I1 THE STAGE OF ISSUES, CHAPTER 3 PROPERTY: THE LABORS OF RETRIEVAL, 3.1 The Incidents of Property, 3.2 The Land Law, 3.3 The Manmade Means of Production, 3.4 A Closure and an Opening, CHAPTER 4 EFFICIENCY AND EQUITY, 4.1 Mainly about Markets, 4.2 Also about Reasons, 4.3 Macro: Networks of Interdependence, 4.4 Micro: Into the Black Box, CHAPTER 5 NATIONS AND REPUBLICS, 5.1 Language: Philosophy and Governance, 5.2 Universality and Particularity, 5.3 The Agenda on the Table, 5.4 Legitimacy As a Problem, PART 111 A HEREAFTER BARELY SHAPED, CHAPTER 6 THE DEMISE OF THE UNION, 6.1 A New Union?, 6.2 The Mounting Tensions, 6.3 The Coup That Failed, 6.4 No Union, CHAPTER 7 AFTERTHOUGHTS, 7.1 Property: Modernity and Its Assumptions, 7.2 The Economic and the Social, 7.3 Economic Ties and National Divisions, 7.4 A Late Caller, NOTES, SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, NAME INDEX, SUBJECT INDEX
About the author
After the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Dušan Pokorný emigrated to Canada, where he became Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of Toronto. His articles on interactions between philosophic and economic thought have appeared in The Canadian Journal of Economics, History of Political Economy, and The Philosophical Forum. Among the books to which he contributed essays on the development of nations, states, and markets are Democratic Theory and Technological Society (M.E. Sharpe, 1988) and Socialist Dilemmas: East and West (M.E. Sharpe, 1990).
Summary
In the last years of the Soviet Union, it suddenly became commonplace to claim that what the country needed was a free market, private property and integration into the global economy. But why should this consciousness dawn in our day? This book examines the issues and aims to answer that question.
