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A socialist economy is based on some form of social ownership, which includes varieties of public ownership and independent cooperatives, over the means of production, wherein production is carried out to directly produce use-value sometimes, but not always, coordinated through economic planning and a system of accounting based on calculation-in-kind or a direct measure of labor-time.
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This study discusses the comparison between capitalist and socialist economic models in the context of international trade. A qualitative approach is used by analyzing references from several books and journals related to this topic. The research results show that in the capitalist economic model, international trade is used as a means to increase...
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The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to promote the major transformation of the socialist economic model, implement the national comprehensive energy-saving plan, actively develop green and low-carbon industries, encourage green consumption, and promote the establishment of a green and low-carbon economi...
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After the capitalist and socialist economic systems dominated the economic life of human society for a long period of time, people lived in them between the economic freedom of the individual without taking into account the interests of the majority, represented by the privatization of the economic system as a whole in light of the capitalist visio...
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Socialist economic management should be reconceptualized. Economic planning conceived as the ex ante allocation of everything that is to be produced in any given production cycle does not capture how any organization, let alone a whole economy, works. Planning should involve preparing in advance to respond flexibly to a range of possible eventualit...
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This study aims to diagnose the problem of economic renaissance in the Islamic world. and to achieve the goal of the study, the features of the problem were identified in two important dimensions, The first is the limited thinking in the capital and socialist framework and the second is the belief in the preference of financial investment over soci...
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Following a decade of popular upsurge that led to a social revolution, a military government called Derg seized the state power in Ethiopia in 1974 to implement a new progressive socialist economic policy by institutionalizing people’s democracy, one-party system and central planning mechanisms. However, the combination of various development pr...
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The theoretical system of the political economy of socialism with Chinese characteristics is composed of multiple parts, and the logical thread runs through it as a crucial element, but the determination of the logical thread has been controversial. This article lists the relevant scholars about the main points of view of logic, and points out the...
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The purpose of this study is to present contemporary trends in the field of business law through comparative analysis by presenting the similarities and differences regarding issues related to business ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) within the three economic systems, capitalism, socialism, and Islamic economics. The concept of the...
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The article deals with the process of formation of the terminological framework of socialist rhetoric. The study is based on the materials of the Meetings of the Central Committee of the Communist and Worker’s Parties Secretaries and the heads of the member countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance government in the period from 1956 t...
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Classifying ownership in the concept of standard ownership, obligations and needs in Islam, then the concept of ownership must be studied in depth, what is the Islamic view of ownership, how to invest, develop, use it and how to distribute it.Through descriptive-analytical research method by collecting primary and secondary data including books, as...
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This article introduces Professor Shi Zhengyi’s early theoretical thinking on reforming the Chinese ethnic minority economic system. Due to historical and political reasons, China had built a planned economic system after the founding of the People’s Republic of China before the reform. That economic system helped China develop its industries. But...
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In the context of the socialist economic system in the new era, real estate tax has become the focus of attention from all walks of life. For a long time, China's real estate tax has been unbalanced in structure, the scope of collection is limited, and the initiative of local governments is insufficient, which has become a problem that needs to be...
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Although the term management accounting has been used around the world since the second half of the 20th century, and in Georgia, the scientists have been arguing about the essence of this phenomenon since about the 80s. Is it an independent science? Is it part of science that does not have an independent subject? This is pseudoscience, e.g., such...
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Xi Jinping's Economic Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is an important part of my country's new concept of state governance and administration. Deeply cultivating advanced ideas in the teaching of continuing education courses, and the cultivation of ideological and political quality of contemporary college students is...
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The article examines the issues concerning the perception and promotion of socialist ideas on the African continent in the 1960s and 1970s. The purpose of this article is to show how socialism was perceived and interpreted in African countries that chose the "socialist way" of development, namely Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Mali, Guinea, Sene...
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Normative state socialist economic theory appeared in the mid-1920s with Soviet economist Preobrazhensky. In Nigeria, many economic thinkers were influenced by Soviet and other Eastern European economic theory during the Cold War years. Bala Usman and Segun Osoba focused on the destruction of feudal land law and on delinking from the capitalist wor...
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This chapter analyzes the evolution of China Mobile—one of China’s pioneer “national champions,” and one of the world’s largest telecom companies—through the lens of the global financial network framework, focusing on the role of financial and business services (FABS), financial centers, offshore jurisdictions, and various governments, in its devel...
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Trends in the development of management accounting in Georgia although the term management accounting has been used around the world since the second half of the 20th century, in Georgia, the scientists have been arguing about the essence of this phenomenon since about the 80s. Is it an independent science? Is it part of science that does not have...
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Powered by the rapid development of the information age, big data technology has had a great impact on China’s socialist economic development. Big data technology is integrated into all fields of nowadays society, especially in the accounting industry of enterprises. Accounting computerization quickly replaces the traditional manual bookkeeping, re...
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The Georgian economy has undergone significant transformation over the past 25 years. socialist economic system was implemented into the market economy and the systemic economic crisis has been overcome. In this thesis the achievements and results of the process are evaluated.
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India has the world's second largest population of 1.36 billion in 2022 (IEA, 2022) and the world's seventh largest landmass (IEA, 2011). India has achieved rapid and remarkable economic development in the past two decades and became the world's tenth largest economy in 2011. With its relatively young population with a median age of 26.2 years, Ind...
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Kerala, the most literate State in India, has advanced in social, technological, health, economic, and educational fields. Schools and colleges in Kerala have taken the global problem of climate change as an urgent matter of importance. Creating Islamic finance and economics saw resurgence within the last four decades. Islamic finance has emerged a...
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Today, production problems are complex. The majority of production activities lead to unmoral judgment. This condition is dominated by the thinking of a capitalist and socialist economic system. The focus of the production theory of Muslim thinkers studied is Al-Ghazali, but it is juxtaposed with the perspectives of other Muslim thinkers, namely Ib...
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This article aimed to provide a systematic and comprehensive overview of Xi Jinping's socialist economic thoughts among the Chinese theorists. It adopts a domain-based systematic literature review method to conduct the study. Xi proposed some new concepts, ideas and strategies for the country's gover-nance systematically and comprehensively, starti...
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Narrative struggles about ethics and religious norms have become an interesting study in the midst of conversations among world thinkers. We can find this discussion in the presentation of economic ethics. The map of disaggregating trends in economic behaviour is divided into the notions of capitalism, socialism and Islam (Islamic economics). The b...
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Presumably everyone familiar with the Austrian school of economics is also acquainted with one of its most famous achievements: The discovery and elaboration of the economic calculation problem of planned economies, notably elaborated in Mises (1920 and 1953). Here we would like to compare two different, but equally famous analyses of planned econo...
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The presence of increasingly shorter business cycles at the international level and the updating of the socialist economic and social development model pose a challenge for Cuban enterprises with respect to increasing competitiveness. The general objective of the article is to present a proposal for the measurement of business competitiveness by me...
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ABSTRAKEtika bisnis menjadi alat kendali bagi setiap individu dalam aktivitas ekonomi. Sistem ekonomi islam telah muncul jauh sebelum sistem ekonomi kapitalis, sosialis maupun sistem ekonomi pancasila berada. Namun dalam hal ini sebagian besar masyarakat telah banyak menganut sistem ekonomi kapitalis dan sosialis, dimana kurangnya kesejahteraan ber...
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The expansion of global air travel in the Cold War era fueled diverse forms of state‐sponsored internationalism, including international writers' congresses, concert tours, and especially art and film festivals. Film festivals served as a key stage for cultural competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as the main way for...
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RESUMEN La presencia de ciclos de negocios cada vez más cortos a nivel internacional y la actualización del modelo económico y de desarrollo social socialista plantean un desafío para las empresas cubanas con respecto a la elevación de la competitividad. El objetivo general del artículo consiste en presentar una propuesta para la medición de la com...
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The paper aimsto explore the relationships between ‘ethical systems’ and ‘systems of values’, offeringalso semantic and epistemological issues from which ethics cannot be divorced. Although ethics is a branch ofphilosophy that has its roots in ancient Greece, it experienced a remarkable revival in recent decades not only inphilosophy but also in th...
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The article examines the history of the theory of Ordoliberalism in the context of plans for the post-war economic reconstruction of Germany. These plans were developed within the Reich ministries and other authorities in cooperation with representatives of German economic science from 1939 to 1945. The paper presents little-known aspects of the ap...
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The existence of an economic system of capitalism, an economic system of socialism, and an economic system of sharia are a response to problems regarding the economy as well as an answer to removing people from the obscurity of the existing economic system. It’s hoped that these systems will be the key to the economic success of a society. But ther...
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Unions spend most their energies on collective bargaining, contract policing, some on lobbying politicians, organizing new members and mobilizing and educating existing memberships. Economics is almost absent from union activity. Calculating the costs of bargaining proposals and occasionally donating money for an alternative economic policy report...
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This article briefly reviews population and social change in China since the founding of the PRC, reflects on its zig-zags from the viewpoint of its general public policy (GPP), and explores its future direction. Based on historical-comparative research and the “economic state in transition” model derived from a systems framework for public policy...
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As we know that there are three major forces in the world that greatly affect the economic system, namely the Socialist economic system, the Capitalist economic system, and the Islamic economic system. Zakat, infaq, and alms are an important and clear part of the Islamic economic system. Therefore, the Zakat Forum together with the Indonesian Insti...
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The socialism-to-market transition is over but has left its marks on the transitioning economies. An important lesson of transition is the major effect of the hardness of the budget constraint on the process, the resulting economy, and the state. One should not overlook its ethical import: a hard BC means that you receive the fruits of your labor,...
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Islamic economic system is built on the foundation of the Islamic faith, the faith in question is the right because it comes from Allah brought to mankind through the prophet Muhammad. The Islamic faith is a faith that satisfies reason, reassures the soul, and is in accordance with human nature. In an individual context, economic activity is based...
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Public opinion in the economic profession is strongly preoccupied with the expected negative economic effects of the coronavirus epidemic. Among the consequences, special attention is paid to the increase in the gross debt of the states. Indeed, based on conventional economic knowledge, it is clear to everyone that the economic downturn and the inc...
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The essay examines China’s globalization from the perspective of neo-Marxist theories of capitalist development and the world systems approach. The first part of the essay will outline the economic and political impasse encountered by China in the 1970s that forced the country to turn away from socialist economic planning and experiment with neolib...
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Xi Jinping's new era of socialist economic thought, rooted in the great practice of China's economic construction, systematically explains the issue of China's economic development and reform, and clearly answers the important questions of how the economic situation is to be judged, how to judge the development stage, how to determine the developme...
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Xi Jinping's new era of socialist economic thought, rooted in the great practice of China's economic construction, systematically explains the issue of China's economic development and reform, and clearly answers the important questions of how the economic situation is to be judged, how to judge the development stage, how to determine the developme...
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ustice is a benchmark in an economics system. In the application of the modern economic system like the capitalist economic system and the socialist economic system, there are many injustices to the people. Problems that make it unfair are, many social inequalities between communities it makes a lot of poverty or unemployment in the country. Theref...
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Despite claims of political independence, Africa is still economically dependent on the global north. The forefathers of Pan-Africanism understood the role of economics in the underdevelopment of the continent and the original Pan-African dream sought to emancipate Africa from this imperial capitalism. They proposed a unified Africa with a self-suf...
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This article briefly reviews population and social change in China since the founding of the PRC, reflects on its zig-zags from the viewpoint of its general public policy (GPP), and explores its future direction. Based on historical-comparative research and the “economic state in transition” model derived from a systems framework for public policy...
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For much of the last two decades, the Central and East European (CEE) economies have experienced a deep structural reform, moving away from a socialist economic system towards a market economy. The political situation of the second half of the 20th century had a significant impact on the economic development and competitiveness of these transition...
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The purpose of the article is to present the achievements of Ludwig Erhard in the field of economic policy and his vision of social well-being. Immediately after World War II, Erhard was the main author of Germany’s economic policy. Based on the principles of ordoliberalism, the social market economy became the source of economic success. Under the...
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This study aims to examine the concept of distributive justice according to Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and comparing it with the conventional theory of distributive justice. Al-Sadr’s concept of distributive justice is explored from his magnum opus, Iqtisaduna, in which he criticizes the Capitalist and Socialist economic system and put forward his thou...
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Normative scenario planning seeks to influence and improve outcomes in the external environment. By any measure, success in this is only partially and variably achieved, and there remains great need to understand how scenarios that embrace a change agenda and seek to improve external outcomes can achieve their purpose. The Mont Fleur scenarios, cre...
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A common Austrian criticism of socialist economic planning points to its supposed inability to boost the dynamic efficiency of an economy, given that adequate business innovation and efficient social coordination cannot be achieved in the absence of private property and market processes. This conception presents two main failures. On the one hand,...
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Purpose In the past 70 years since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, China’s economic studies have been constantly centered on major issues such as national modernization, social economic development and the establishment, reform and improvement of socialist economic system. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/ap...
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Whereas both classical and neoclassical economists based their theories on a static psychology of self-maximizing rationality that facilitated the formulation of universal economic laws, Marx proposed instead an evolutionary understanding of the human psyche, opening the possibility of dynamic economic laws that mutated in accordance with changing...
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Some scholars have studied economic beauty with the lack of overall, systematic ideas. Basing on the previous research, this article focuses on the economic beauty and socialist economic beauty, and discusses the concept and characteristics of economic beauty. According to the definition and characteristics of economic beauty, the alienation of eco...
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O atual trabalho tem por objetivo simultaneamente a elaboração de um framework analítico para se organizar as relações dos problemas das instituições econômicas, em especial sua aplicação para o problema do cálculo econômico socialista e a de propor uma leitura do debate. Pouco se analisou sobre a relação dos problemas, o que levou a uma barreira l...
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Economic and humanitarian crisis that happened in Venezuela since 2014has left Venezuela in international pressure, especially from the UnitedStates. United States pressure make Venezuela position’s isolated in LatinAmerica region also in international. In order facing United Statespressure, Venezuela takes advantage of its position in ALBA as a re...
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At the present stage, with the continuous development of social economy and science and technology, China’s financial and securities industry has gradually developed. As an important part of China’s socialist economic market, including the financial and securities industry, therefore, to a certain extent, the development of the financial securities...
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As of 2019, real world communism is still not implemented yet, almost all countries on earth beside North Korea with its state-directed economy have adopted the capitalistic system. The later system must have its benefits and advantages over socialistic systems otherwise it would not possess such an high adoption rate all over the world. Neverthele...
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There are no adequate economic surveys of the Romanian socialist period (roughly 1947/1948 – 1989, although much of the decade of the 1990s could be included as some sort of post-socialism, or reluctant transition). Ironically, among the most lucid exposition of the main thrust of socialist economic policies can be found not in economic studies, bu...
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Road and bridge engineering is an indispensable part of socialist economic construction in China, whose construction quality signifcantly affects the infrastructure construction level in the whole society. To meet the rapid economic development of various regions, construction scale and quantity of road and bridge engineering have been continuously...
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This interdisciplinary study offers a comprehensive analysis of the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Providing full historical context and drawing on a wide range of literature, this book explores the continuous economic and social transformation of the post-socialist world. While the future is yet to...
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For several decades the economy of Soviet Georgia was a composite part of the socalled integral economic complex. 26% of our products were sent to other allied republics, and 28% of the products produced there came into Georgia. In the economic development of Georgia, from the mid-1950s to the early 1990s, two periods are singled out. The first per...
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The purpose of this research is to 􀏔ind out and explain the Socialist Economics, Tan Malaka, according to Islamic economics. This type of research was library research by using content analysis. The results showed that in the perspective of Islamic economics, the Socialist Economics, Tan Malaka has similarities in terms of objectives and goals. The...
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As the first concluding chapter, this chapter lays out the problems in the two experiences of communism and socialism. Communism has been enforced in the Soviet Union, and its collapse shows that communism produces extreme political inequality and centralization of power. Socialism, which appeared in various redistributive policies in Europe and el...
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The problem of spatial development of the entities of the Russian Federation remain one of the most essential issues of the regional economy, despite a thorough scientific elaboration. The spatial development of the entity of the Russian Federation should be based on scientific approaches to the conduct of regional policy and take into account the...
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Western countries with the economic system of capitalism have hegemonize all aspects of the economy of society, so that they dominate all countries in the world including Islam. The hegemony according to five things, that are:Defence, economic, socio-cultural, political, religion. The actualization and contextualization of the Islamic economic syst...
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The subject of the article are currency reforms that were carried out after the Second World War in the Polish state. The first legal regulations from 1944 - 45 concerned the unification of the money circulation, which in practice meant the exchange of occupation money for the new currency. However, the repayment of financial claims made before the...
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Tulisan ini akan membuktikan bahwa mainstream sistem ekonomi yang berkembang, yaitu kapitalisme dan sosialisme merupakan bagian dari sistem yang Islami. Sistem ekonomi kapitalis yang sesuai dengan semangat ekonomi Islam, meminjam contoh salah satu rukun Islam berupa haji, meniscayakan umat Muslim memiliki semangat kapitalis. Untuk menunaikan ibadah...
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As a result of researches on the chosen theme, certain tendencies of production of agrarian products were identified as all categories of farms, and in the context of their separate groups. For a deeper insight into the nature of the research processes, a long period of development of agricultural production was chosen, namely the period of the for...
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The emergence and development of the management accounting in Romania represents a point of interest due to the specific economic and political context which is characteristic to the countries in Central and Eastern Europe that had for four decades a socialist economic and political regime. The change between the three generations of management acc...
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This paper describes some differences in the Islamic economic system and the capitalist economic system. The sources of Islamic economic system are clear, i.e., the Koran and the hadits. The foundation of Islamic economics is distinctive, unique and different with the capitalist economic system or socialist economic system. In a capitalist economic...
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Soviet government in Lithuania was in power almost for a half of century. This system solved urban problems almost in the same way as the rest of the world. However, Soviet power some topics tried to interpret on its own way and some of them simply simulated. Urban design practice and theory were based on the foundation of ideology and socialist ec...
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In this paper I argue that sociology was a key discipline in producing relevant knowledge for managing and reimagining the socialist economic development in Romania. It played a central role in placing economic development at the subnational level, since much of the everyday economics unfolded at the level of the regions, which formed around the em...
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Syamsuri Fakultas Ekonomi Manajemen, Universitas Darussalam (UNIDA) Gontor Abstrak. Paradigma Pembangunan Ekonomi; Satu Analisis Tinjauan Ulang Dari Perspektif Ekonomi Islam. Kegagalan sistem ekonomi kapitalis yang membenarkan orang kaya mengeksploitasi orang miskin, dan sistem sosialis membenarkan orang miskin merampas harta orang kaya menjadi sat...
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The world economy is now facing paramount problems such as long tern stagnation of economic growth and worsening income distributions (or economic polarisation). This is even more embarrassing, because the humans have been seeking more equal society during the post-WWII era by engaging in the revised capitalism or social democracy by the most of ca...
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The outcomes of the transformation of the GDR economy is described in regard to four topics: reproduction of managerial elites, due to functional necessities; short windows of opportunity of reaching a leading position at the top level of companies in the new economic order; fast role taking of the new managerial elites who often had a professional...
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This study aims to investigate the impact of structural indicators for the European Union banking system on economic evolution. The methodological framework is the analysis of three variables of economic evolution. The econometric equation is built by regression test using annual data for the period 2008 to 2014. The indicators of the European bank...
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This paper investigates the persistence of entrepreneurship in the region of Kaliningrad between 1925 and 2010. During this time period the area experienced a number of extremely disruptive shocks including; devastation caused by World War II, a nearly complete replacement of the native German population by Soviets, and 45 years under an anti-entre...
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The collapse of socialist economic system in Croatia was followed by a period of economic transition during which the industry sector was affected by major changes. This study, on an example of Central Croatia, analyzes the spatial aspect of these changes between 1990 and 2011. The used data were taken from the National Bureau of Statistics and stu...
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This study aims to look at the existing economic system in this world, both socialist economic system, capitalist economic system, and Islamic economic system. The research method used is literature study method. The results of the study indicate that the socialist economic system, the economic system in which the government has a very big role in...
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Abstract Main purpose of this scientific research is to analyze the countries in transition; in particular, through this research we will explain the economic growth and its determinants in the countries in transition. Referring to the fact that many ex-communist countries were faced with a transition from a socialist economic system into the econo...
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The paper focuses on the proposals of post-war order in Czechoslovakia and its theoretical analysis. While there exists a wide range of studies, both Czech and foreign, dedicated to the history of Czechoslovakia in the post-war period, a majority of the studies deals with political development. Then the interpretations of the failure of President B...
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For the Western Balkan countries (WBCs), the transition from socialism to capitalism and democracy was less smooth than in other parts of Emerging Europe. This article reflects on and compares development of the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) sector and different government policy for this sector entrepreneurship in WBCs. The author, in...
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Socialism: Origins, Expansion, Decline, and Attempted Revival in the United States is an attempt to address all the important economic aspects of socialism—the concepts and theories, the historical attempts to implement socialist economic systems, and the endeavor to establish socialism in the United States.
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The measures introduced by Raúl Castro since 2008 and the most recent US–Cuba policy change indicate that Cuba is shifting from a planned and highly centralised state socialist economic model toward one in which economic actors and markets become main drivers of the economy. The examples of Asian and Central and Eastern European socialist countries...
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The purpose of this paper is to identify the extent to which a communist centralized economy managed to become a competitive one by financing its investment plan with loans coming from the capitalist banking system. The objectives of this research are as follows: to identify the main aspects of the negotiations carried out by socialist Romania to j...
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After the downfall of the socialist economic system in 1990, Albania underwent an agriculture reform in 1992. After the reform execution, all agricultural land was redistributed among village residents. The subsequent land segmentation lead to extreme agriculture production implications. Gjocaj Commune is located in the centre of Albania at the Peq...
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Kibbutz is a social organization established on the principle of equality, public ownership, and voluntariness. Based on the principle of state ownership of land, collective ownership of means of production, and democratic management, such social organization implements the system of from each according to his ability, to each according to his need...
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This paper presents a comparative view of Islamic economic rationalism and consumption framework to its counterpart's conventional capitalist and socialist economic system. In conventional economic system, only self-interest and rationality of the consumer is the main principle to maximize utility whereas moral, religious, national, historical, cul...
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This paper presents a comparative view of Islamic economic rationalism and consumption framework to its counterpart's conventional capitalist and socialist economic system. In conventional economic system, only self-interest and rationality of the consumer is the main principle to maximize utility whereas moral, religious, national, historical, cul...
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This paper presents a comparative view of Islamic economic rationalism and consumption framework to its counterpart's conventional capitalist and socialist economic system. In conventional economic system, only self-interest and rationality of the consumer is the main principle to maximize utility whereas moral, religious, national, historical, cul...
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Ecological Marxism is distinct from the environmentalists whose main focus is on the wrongness of anthropocentrism. Even with their diverse approaches, the latter have produced a common portrayal of the autonomy or integrity of nature. Thus, their stress on the debunking of the centrality of human beings eventually emphasized on the gaining of new...
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Ronald Coase was in his early 20’s when he developed his groundbreaking theory of the firm. This theory represented a new approach with no obvious precursors, but where did it arise from? This article traces the origins of Coase’s theory of the firm and provides a context for its formation. I argue that Coase’s arguments were rooted in the exchange...
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This paper examines the evolution of Cuba's self-employed entrepreneurs since the sector became an officially-recognized alternative to State sector employment in 2010. Despite the expansion of authorized self-employment activities and the implementation of gradual economic reforms to "update" the country's socialist economic model since 2010, Cuba...
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Estonia is widely regarded as a paramount example for a successful transformation of a socialist economic system to a functioning market economy. Against the backdrop of this positive image which contrasts strongly with the crisis scenarios in Southern Europe the remaining problems of Estonia are often ignored. Estonia has hardly succeeded in catch...
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A small-N comparative analysis of six different areas of applied artificial intelligence (AI) suggests that the next period of development will require a merging of narrow-AI and strong-AI approaches. This will be necessary as programmers seek to move beyond developing narrowly defined tools to developing software agents capable of acting independe...
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Scholarly interest in the process of urbanization, especially in the former socialist countries from Eastern and Central Europe, has intensified over the last decades. In this article, I focus on how the Romanian cities and towns numerically increased, framing a false process of post-socialist urbanization under the recent capitalist power. Looking...