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In an article in July, Sheng Songcheng, the PBOC’s head of statistics, argued that “the macro framework in a socialist market economy is superior to the Western economy,” because “the Chinese government has significant power in terms of both monetary and fiscal policy and is able to seek the optimal combination.”
In a hybrid socialist market economy, it seems, credit-driven growth need not be constrained by concerns about debt sustainability.
There are limits in China’s socialist market economy, but they lie on the liability side of banks’ balance sheets, not on the asset side.
Even a hybrid socialist market economy faces constraints if it also wishes to be an open economy.
To understand the logic of state capitalism, it is useful to recall some early examples – not the socialist command economies or modern societies seeking to combat market failures, but ancient civilizations.
The old state planner Chen Yuan once cautioned that Chinese reformers had created "a birdcage economy" in which a capitalist bird was growing within a socialist cage.
His inference was that, unless Party leaders were careful, this capitalist bird would literally burst out of its socialist cage, spelling an end to China's Marxist-Leninist revolution.
Indeed, the old socialist economic birdcage has now been largely burst by China's capitalist reforms, releasing with a vengeance a mutant "people's republic" into the global marketplace of consumerism.
While Putin managed to stop Georgia from joining NATO, his Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) is a poor replica of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon), which included all of the countries of the Eastern Bloc and a few other socialist states.
Many people now view such efforts to "renew" the socialist system - to make it actually work for the people - as having been doomed from the start.
Obama is neither a socialist, nor a mere political accountant.
State Capitalism 2.0GENEVA – The fall of the Berlin Wall almost 30 years ago represented a high-water mark in the retreat of the state from the global economy, signaling a defeat of socialist economics virtually worldwide.
Amid this global rollback of statist and socialist economics, some state-owned enterprises (SOEs) were privatized outright.
The repeal of the tax break on overtime reflects another economic fallacy to which French Socialist politicians are deeply attached: the “lump of labor” notion that underlay the most disastrous of their economic policies – the 35-hour workweek, introduced in 2000.
The Indian model, whereby public-sector-banks lent to private firms, proved so toxic and difficult to replace that public-sector bank ownership itself has lost much of its traditional socialist appeal.
The collapse of Communism, I believe, was part of the overall exhaustion of socialist politics in both systems.
This party, now using the presumptuous name “The Left,” has gained a foothold in West Germany with its impossible promises of higher pensions, a minimum hourly wage of €10, huge public investment schemes, and zero unemployment – in short, exactly the kind of socialist paradise that failed in East Germany.
Cuban officials stress that the purpose of these changes is to increase efficiency, “not to alter the socialist model.”
There is somewhat greater freedom of expression, with debates and criticism of several aspects of Cuba’s socialist model, such as low salaries and the dual monetary system, which has caused income inequality by favoring those who work in tourism and for foreign companies.
In 1924, a socialist and center-left coalition, the cartel des gauches, was met by a flight of money and a run on the franc, which the left believed was organized and facilitated by the Banque de France (the central bank).
As President, for the next two years he ran an experiment in socialist economics, designed to woo communist supporters.
But, like a socialist utopia or pure libertarianism, the idea of world government can illuminate a sensible path for capturing the benefits of a more effective global polity.
But even Germany can't afford to expand the socialist stranglehold of labor on what is supposed to be a capitalist economy, for one day worker use and abuse of the political system will cannibalize economic substance.
On this occasion, the socialist government of Lionel Jospin belatedly tried to summon a bit more firmness than usual, but otherwise it’s a familiar story: alarming to foreigners, but not very surprising or disturbing to the French.
Like many authoritarian leaders (Mussolini, for one), Lee was once a socialist.
The use of chemical weapons against rebels and civilians in the Middle East is far from a new phenomenon, and Arab socialist and Baathist regimes – with their ideological kinship to Nazism and fascism – have been the most common perpetrators.
Most of what remained of socialist ideology was washed away in the late 1980’s with the collapse of the Soviet empire.
Old social structures were destroyed, socialist customs and habits vanished overnight, former norms and unwritten rules were abandoned.
So widespread is this view that even noncommunist socialist parliamentarians in Poland proposed a law that is supposed to control access to pornography with the help of a council of twelve (I would love to be one of them!) who will spend their days browsing through hundreds, if not thousands, of periodicals and movies in search of the salacious, and decide what to ban.
Traditionally one was supposed to be a socialist in one's youth and turn conservative later.
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