From: GERALD LEVY (gerald_a_levy@msn.com)
Date: Wed Jun 25 2008 - 09:00:45 EDT
> Charles Bettelheim’s contribution. Is there one?> Which was the contribution of Charles Bettelheim? > Concerning socialist economic calculation, I think that > Bettelheim’s considerations did not go far from what Karl > Kautsky (1902) and Otto Bauer (1919) attained. > It is pretty much astonished since his Calcul économique > et formes de propriété was published on 1970! Hi Alejandro: There were many contributions of Bettelheim, but they are not to be found only in one book. He published a book on the Soviet economy as far back as 1945. He also wrote many works on planning long before his book on economic calculation. Most of these have still not been translated into English. A couple of early (and fairly conventional) books on planning which were published in English include _Studies in the Theory of Planning_ (Asia Publishing House, 1959) and _Some Basic Planning Problems_ (Asia Publishing House and Statistical Publishing Society, 1960). His _Transition to the Socialist Economy_ (Harvester Press, 1975; originally published in French in 1968) is available on the Internet. In any event, if you want to understand his perspective better, you are probably better off looking at his multi-volume _Class Struggles in the USSR_ and his writings on the Chinese economy. in solidarity, Jerry _______________________________________________ ope mailing list ope@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope
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