WHY MARKET SOCIALISM? Why Market Socialism? Voices From di ss ent Frank Roosevelt and David Belkin, Editors First published 1994 by M.E. Sharpe Published 2015 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright 1994 Taylor & Francis.All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notices No responsibility is assumed by the publisher for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use of operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein. Practitioners and researchers must always rely on their own experience and knowledge in evaluating and using any information, methods, compounds, or experiments described herein. In using such information or methods they should be mindful of their own safety and the safety of others, including parties for whom they have a professional responsibility. Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Why market socialism?: voices from Dissent / edited by Frank Roosevelt and David Belkin; with a foreword by Robert Heilbroner. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 1-56324-465-9ISBN 1-56324-466-7 (pbk) 1. Marxian economics. 2. Socialism. 3. Capitalism. I. Roosevelt, Frank, 1938 II. Belkin, David, 1951 III. Dissent. HB97.5.W5 1994 335dc20 94-19803 CIP ISBN 13: 9781563244667 (pbk) ISBN 13: 9781563244650 (hbk) This book is dedicated to the memory of IRVING HOWE Contents by Robert Heilbroner | by Frank Roosevelt and David Belkin | 1. Why Market Socialism? From the Critique of Political Economy to Positive Political Economy David Belkin | PART II: THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST PERSPECTIVE | 2. Thinking About Socialism: Achievements, Failures, and Possibilities Irving Howe | 3. Markets and Plans: Is the Market Necessarily Capitalist? Michael Harrington | Michel Rocard and Paul Ricoeur | PART III: MARKETS AND THE SOCIALIST TRADITION | Frank Roosevelt | 6. Oskar Langes Market Socialism: The Story of an Intellectual-Political Career Tadeusz Kowalik | 7. The Turning Point: A Review of Brus and Laski, From Marx to the Market David Belkin | 8. Socialism and Planning: Beyond the Soviet Economic Crisis Daniel Bell | Robert Heilbroner and Joanne Barkan | PART IV: VISIONS, MODELS, AND BLUEPRINTS | 10. Feasible Socialism? Some Social-Political Assumptions Alec Nove | 11. A Case for Market Socialism: What Does It Mean? Why Should We Favor It? David Miller and Saul Estrin | Robert Blair | Saul Estrin and David Miller | 12. A Vision of Market Socialism: How It Might WorkAnd Its Problems David Miller | Frank Roosevelt | 13. Market Socialism, a Blueprint: How Such an Economy Might Work John Roemer | Joanne Barkan and David Belkin | John Roemer | 14. Challenges to Market Socialism: A Response to Critics Thomas E. Weisskopf | Branko Horvat | James Tobin | 16. Social Reality and Free Markets: A Letter to Friends in Eastern Europe Robert Dahl | 17. Virtues and Vices of the Market: Balanced Correctives to a Current Craze Ernest Erber | 18. Market Socialism and Free Economy: A Discussion of Alternatives Alec Nove | 19. Remaking Our Economy: New Strategies for Structural Reform Fred Block |
Joanne Barkan is Executive Editor of Dissent and author of Visions of Emancipation: The Italian Workers Movement Since 1945. David Belkin is an economist and fiscal policy analyst with the Office of the Manhattan Borough President, and a contributor to Dissent. Daniel Bell is Scholar in Residence at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of Marxian Socialism in the United States; The End of Ideology; The Coming of Post-Industrial Society; and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. Robert Blair is an economist and speechwriter with an independent regulatory agency in Washington, D.C. Fred Block is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis, and author of Postindustrial Possibilities: A Critique of Economic Discourse. Robert Dahl is Sterling Professor of Political Science (Emeritus) at Yale University and author of After the Revolution? Authority in a Good Society; Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition; Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City; A Preface to the Theory of Economic Democracy; and Democracy and Its Critics. Ernest Erber is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and author of Urban Planning in Transition . Saul Estrin is Lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science and author of Self-management: Economic Theory and Yugoslav Practice and (with P. Holmes) of French Planning in Theory and Practice. He is also coeditor (with J. Le Grand) of Market Socialism. Michael Harrington (1928-1989) was a leader in the socialist movement and the author of sixteen books, including The Other America; The Twilight of Capitalism; The Politics at God's Funeral; and Socialism: Past and Future. Robert Heilbroner is Norman Thomas Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at the New School for Social Research and author of The Worldly Philosophers; An Inquiry into the Human Prospect; Marxism: For and Against; The Nature and Logic of Capitalism; and 21st Century Capitalism. Branko Horvat was Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute of Economic Studies in Belgrade and is now head of the Social Democratic Union in Croatia. He is the author of Towards a Theory of Planned Economy, An Essay on Yugoslav Society; and The Political Economy of Socialism: A Marxist Social Theory. Irving Howe (19201993) was a leading social and literary critic and was founding editor of Dissent from 1953 to his death in 1993. Among his books are Politics and the Novel; World of Our Fathers; and Socialism and America. Tadeusz Kowalik is Professor of Economics and Humanities at the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw. He is the author of several entries in J. Eatwell, M. Milgate, and P. Newman, eds., The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics. David Miller is Official Fellow in Social and Political Theory at Nuffield College, Oxford, and author of Social Justice; Philosophy and Ideology in Hume's Political Thought; Anarchism; and Market, State, and Community: Theoretical Foundations of Market Socialism. | Next page