Socialist economic planning
“The central element of the socialist system is planning. Socialist planning can be defined as a means of subordinating the laws of economic behaviour and economic development to serve human needs.”
This work brings within reach of the Finnish reader for the first time the lively discussion on planning that has taken place in socialist countries. Finnish and Soviet experts address, among other things:
- how prices are formed in socialist countries,
- how socialist planning and markets are reconciled with one another,
- how socialist planning has been utilised in connection with the economic reforms of the Soviet Union and Hungary,
- what the international division of labour among socialist countries is and what role COMECON plays in its realisation.
In addition, the work examines the position of planning in Marxist economics, analyses the problems of planning in contemporary capitalism, and presents the mathematical programming methods of socialist planning. (AI translation)
- ISBN: 951-30-3235-3 (paperback)
