The Evolution of Economic Systems: Essays in Honor of Ota Sik

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Sik’s Third Way of Economic Evolution....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Changing Priorities....Pages 21-31
Limitations to the Interdependence of Systems....Pages 32-42
Economics, Environment and the Faustian Imperative....Pages 43-58
Systems Reproduction in Interdisciplinary Perspective....Pages 59-67
Why Some Reforms Succeed....Pages 68-76
A Cognitive-evolutionary Theory of Economic Policy....Pages 77-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Evolution and Stagnation of Economic Systems....Pages 91-99
The Self-organisation of the Economy....Pages 100-110
Evolution and Innovation....Pages 111-120
Waves in Long-term Economic Development....Pages 121-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Plan, Market and Banking....Pages 133-140
The Market and the Classical Theory of Prices....Pages 141-154
Some Thoughts on Plan and Market....Pages 155-164
An Institutionalist View of the Evolution of Economic Systems....Pages 165-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Socialist Experience and Ota Sik’s Third Way....Pages 177-185
Socialism as a Socio-economic System....Pages 186-192
On the Reformability of the Soviet-type Economic Systems....Pages 193-201
Strategic Reappraisal and Short-term Adjustment: The External Economic Policy of Socialist Countries at the Crossroads....Pages 202-212
The Technological Gap in the CMEA Countries: Missing Incentives....Pages 213-221
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Innovation as the Crucial Problem of Perestroika....Pages 225-234
Gorbachev’s ‘Radical Reform’ and the Future of the Soviet Planning System....Pages 235-244
Success and Failure: Emergence of Economic Reforms in Czechoslovakia and Hungary....Pages 245-255
The State of the Debate on Planning in Hungary....Pages 256-264
The Evolution of Socialist Economic Theories and the Strategic Options of Reform in China....Pages 265-275
The Evolution of Economic Systems: A Summary....Pages 276-281
Back Matter....Pages 283-284