Is socialism back? A review of contemporary economic literature
从经济学角度梳理了近期对“社会主义”概念重新燃起的兴趣,综述了五个主题领域的新模型提案,并构建了评估框架以指明未来研究方向。
Abstract The paper deals with the recent resurgence of interest in the concept of “socialism” from an economic perspective. The most significant contemporary proposals for a new model of socialism are surveyed across five major thematic areas: socialism as a voluntary endeavor and socialist ethics; socialism as a process of democratization; socialism, efficiency and profit maximization; the problem of planning and the new calculation debate; and, socialism as a means versus socialism as an end. A common framework to assess the new blueprints is constructed to identify the likely directions of the research on these themes in the near future.