Economic Knowledge in Socialism, 1945-1989

This cross-disciplinary special issue focuses on economic knowledge in social countries during the second half of the twentieth century. Through a series of historical case studies, the issue embraces a wide variety of perspectives on the ways economy and society were conceptualized behind the Iron Curtain. Contributors explored the entanglement of ideology and economic discourse, the political dimensions of cybernetic technocracy, and the various faces of Cold War rationality of socialism.

Contributors. Oleg Ananyin, Johanna Bockman, Ivan Boldyrev, Till Düppe, Richard Ericson, Yakov Feygin, Olessia Kirtchik, Martha Lampland, Adam Leeds, Denis Melnik, Chris Miller, György Peteri, Egl¿ Rindzevi¿i¿t¿, Vít¿zslav Sommer, Joachim Zweynert

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Till Düppe and Ivan Boldyrev, special issue editors

Product details

• Authors: Till Boldyrev Duppe
• Assisted by: Ivan Boldyrev (Editor), Till Duppe (Editor), Till Düppe (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.01.2020
• EAN: 9781478009375
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0937-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Volkswirtschaftslehre