Rediscovering Fire: Basic Economic Lessons from the Soviet Experiment to Eliminate the Market

by Guinevere Liberty Nell

In this book, Guinevere Liberty Nell visits this historical laboratory of social science to study the lessons in basic economics that it teaches. Nell observes that the founders of the Soviet experiment, Lenin and other Bolshevik leaders, wrote volumes of articles and books on Marxist theory and then proceeded to enact the very policies that they promised. Therefore the Soviet experiment provides an ideal lens through which to view the consequences...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875867472
• ISBN13: 9780875867472
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Algora Publishing
• Length: 322 Pages