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Information Technology and Socialist Construction - The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism (Hardcover, New)
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Information Technology and Socialist Construction - The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
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The failure of command central planning in the twentieth century
has led to a general disillusionment within the socialist movement
worldwide. Some alternatives to capitalism have been proposed since
the end of the Cold War, but none has offered an alternative form
of economic calculation. This book explains how modern information
technology may be used to implement a new method of economic
calculation that could bring an end to capitalism and make
socialism possible. In this book, the author critically examines a
number of socialist proposals that have been put forward since the
end of the Cold War. It is shown that although these proposals have
many merits, their inability effectively to incorporate the
benefits of information technology into their models has limited
their ability to solve the problem of socialist construction. The
final section of the book proposes an entirely new model of
socialist development, based on a "needs profile" that makes it
possible to convert the needs of large numbers of people into data
that can be used as a guide for resource allocation. This analysis
makes it possible to rethink and carefully specify the conditions
necessary for the abolition of capital and consequently the
requirements for socialist revolution and, ultimately, communist
society. Information Technology and Socialist Construction will be
of interest to students and scholars of political economy, the
history of economic thought, labour economics and industrial
economics.
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