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Socialism: Socialism is a political and economic system in which the means of production and distribution are owned and controlled by the people. - Communism envisions a classless, stateless society where all property is commonly owned. Communism is a more radical form of socialism, theoretically representing its final stage. See also Communism, Society, Economic systems, State.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Jeffrey Sachs on Socialism - Dictionary of Arguments

Mause I 99f
Socialism/transformation/Sachs: for the transformation of socialist societies after the turn of 1989, Jeffrey Sachs and David Lipton proposed a "shock therapy", i.e. a sudden introduction of market mechanisms and budgetary discipline.(1)
This strategy was first drawn up for Poland, but was then applied in other countries as well. The background was the assumption that reform losers - dismissed workers, managers of state-owned companies and bureaucrats - would organize and resist ((s) change).
This calculation was based on a political understanding that politicians conceived as entrepreneurs in a vote market, analogous to the benefit maximizing homo oeconomicus of neoclassical models in economics.
>Neoclassical economics
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VsSachs: these measures were only successful in the ethnically homogeneous countries, but failed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia. In the Soviet Union, the initial democratic and market-economy reforms led to the mutual blocking of the president and the anti-reform parliament and to a deep crisis in public finances.
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1. Lipton, David, und Jeffrey Sachs, Creating a market economy in Eastern Europe: The case of Poland. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity1, 1990, p. 75– 147.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

EconSachs I
Jeffrey Sachs
Nouriel Roubini
Political and economic determinants of budget deficits in the industrial democracies 1989

Mause I
Karsten Mause
Christian Müller
Klaus Schubert,
Politik und Wirtschaft: Ein integratives Kompendium Wiesbaden 2018


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