On the Workability of Market Socialism
Author(s) -
Pranab Bardhan,
John E. Roemer
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
the journal of economic perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 9.614
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1944-7965
pISSN - 0895-3309
DOI - 10.1257/jep.8.2.177
Subject(s) - socialism , inefficiency , capitalism , economics , market socialism , state socialism , neoclassical economics , democracy , market economy , state (computer science) , keynesian economics , control (management) , economic system , political science , law , management , politics , mathematics , communism , algorithm
Contrary to the claim of Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny (1994), it is conceivable under market socialism to take firms out of the orbit of state control and that a less narrow theory of the state than theirs allows the possibility of democratic socialism mitigating problems of economic inefficiency better than capitalism.
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