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New Commonwealth : From Bureaucratic Corporatism to Socialist Capitalism.
Title:
New Commonwealth : From Bureaucratic Corporatism to Socialist Capitalism.
Author:
Secara, Claudiu A.
ISBN:
9781892941190
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (304 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I - THE SOCIAL MARKET -- Social Market Capitalism -- The Accounting Nature of Capitalism -- Closed vs. Open Capitalist Systems -- Individualistic vs. Communitarian Capitalism -- Forms of Socialized Capitalism -- The Profit Motive -- Social Capitalism -- The Social Market Commonwealth -- CHAPTER II - THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT -- The International Power Market -- The German Way -- The American Way -- The Russian Way -- The Interconnected World System -- The Mediterranean Ecosystem -- European Inland Farming -- The Affluent Farming Societies -- The Emergence of the Military-Industrial Corporation -- The Anglo-Saxons and the Slavs -- The Battle over Europe -- The Balkanization of the World -- CHAPTER III - THE QUESTION OF ECONOMIC MODELS -- The Interventionist Philosophy -- The Traditional Centrally Planned Model -- To Reform or Not to Reform -- Internal Factors of Decline -- External Factors of Decline -- In Pursuit of Capitalism with a Human Face -- Reforms and Their Results -- Motivation vs. Management -- The Ambiguities of Decentralization -- Market Competition under Central Planning -- International Markets - National Competition -- Managed Social Markets -- CHAPTER IV - THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE COLD WAR INDUSTRIES -- The American Pursuit of a Military Economy -- The Air Industry -- The Air Industry's Support Industry -- Soviet Union's Militarized Economy -- Détente -- CHAPTER V - THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC SCENE -- The Soviet Union's Dramatic Decline -- The United States' Deteriorating Leadership -- Labor Shortages in the Modern Economy -- Russian-Style Industrialization -- The Russian Agricultural Revolution -- Leveraging Labor through Service Automation -- Reinventing the Feudal Work System -- The Industrial Technocracy -- The Historical Curve toward Global Market Socialism.

CHAPTER VI - PITFALLS OF A COMPETITIVE MARKET -- The Market Economy and Privatization -- "Free Market" without Markets -- Growing Transatlantic Trade Disputes -- European Investments vs. American Investments -- Similarites in the Former Comecon Countries' Reforms -- Playing the Market along with the Socialist Nomenklatura -- Playing Socialism at the Stock Market -- The Concept of Managed Markets -- CHAPTER VII - THE INVISIBLE REVOLUTION -- Ownership Distribution in the United States -- Employee Stock Ownership Programs -- In Pursuit of an Industrial Policy with a Capitalist Face -- A Historical Framework -- The French Auto Industry -- The Japanese Semiconductor Industry -- The German Steel Industry -- The United States' Experience -- CHAPTER VIII - THE MAKING OF EURASIA -- Convergence within Europe -- The Thaw, Finally -- Events within Regularities - the Cycle of History -- The Aristotelianism of Global Politics -- Soft vs. Hard Style Management -- Hypothesizing on the Future -- Intelligentsia in Power -- The Birth of Euroslavia -- NOTES -- INDEX.
Abstract:
Russia will compromise both models-the old communist orthodoxy and casino capitalism-then it can become the dominant power in a Eurasian commonwealth within a new world order quite different from what most Americans imagine." - Booklist.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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