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The Social Limits to Markets
Author(s) -
Plant Raymond
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1987.tb01886.x
Subject(s) - socialism , politics , neoclassical economics , economics , market economy , law and economics , political economy , sociology , political science , law , communism
In spite of the failure of the old totems of socialism, much remains to offer contemporary socialists a body of ideas to which they can add strands of market thinking. But the market mentality, argues Raymond Plant, Professor of Politics at Southampton University, neglects values that socialists hold to be more important than mere efficiency.