Socialism After Communism: The New Market Socialism

by Christopher Pierson

Book Overview

Christopher Pierson assesses the evidence of terminal decline, but finds rather a whole series of deep-seated challenges to traditional forms of socialist and social democratic thinking. Above all, these problems are to be found in the political economy of social democracy and its commitment to incremental change in the context of an increasingly globalized market economy.

The latter chapters of the book are devoted to an assessment of market...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271014792
• ISBN13: 9780271014791
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"