The size of Bettelheim's Transition to Socialist Economy approaches 900k. Accordingly, I have prepared the text in three parts, the last of which consists of a relatively brief index. With respect to the latter, the subject headings and page references in the index are NOT linked to the various sections of the text. Nevertheless, I believe the index will still prove to be very useful once you have downloaded and saved all three parts of the book (in one folder) on your hard drive. To make use of the index you will need to use two browsers at the same time: one for viewing the text (say, Netscape), and the other for viewing the index entries (Internet Explorer). Using Netscape's "Find..." command, key words from the index can be entered, or, you can go to a specific page reference by entering "page x" (where "x" is a given number -- there must be a space between the word "page" and the number "x"). |
Preface to the English Edition |
9 | ||||
|
| ||||
|
| ||||
I |
|
Present state of theory. |
14 | ||
|
| ||||
I |
|
A general survey of the mode of organisation of present-day |
| ||
|
1 |
The commodity character of part of the production of the state |
| ||
VI |
|
Statisation, socialisation and taking over of the means of |
| ||
|
1 |
The social implications of state ownership. |
43 | ||
|
(a) |
The more or less social nature of the productive forces. |
48 | ||
4 |
The production-relations within the state sector of the socialist |
| |||
|
(a) |
Planned obligations to buy and sell. |
56 | ||
| |||||
|
|
(b) |
Centralised economic management of certain branches of |
| |
5 |
Economic subject and juridical subject. |
71 | |||
|
(a) |
Determining the economic subjects. |
72 | ||
|
(1) |
Internal structuring of economic subjects and working |
| ||
(b) |
Contractual relations. |
86 | |||
|
(1) |
Contracts for buying and selling. |
86 | ||
(c) |
The nature of the decisions to be taken by the different |
| |||
6 |
Some problems of planning connected with the existence of eco- |
| |||
|
(a) |
The role played by economic subjects in the drawing up of |
| ||
|
(1) |
Procedures for consultation and participation. |
95 | ||
(b) |
Some contradictions or weaknesses in the present practice |
| |||
(c) |
The degree of exactness and the more or less obligatory |
| |||
|
(1) |
Investments without security. |
101 | ||
(d) |
Methods used by the planning organs to lay down produc- |
| |||
(e) |
Methods of crrying out the plans. |
105 | |||
Conclusion |
107 | ||||
| |||||
Chapter Three Forms and methods of socialist planning |
| ||||
I |
|
Delimiting the socialist sector from the private sector under the |
| ||
|
1 |
Economic laws and socialism. |
125 | ||
III |
|
The organisation of exchange. |
130 | ||
| |||||
|
1 |
Individual production and exchange. |
130 | ||
IV |
|
The organisation of distribution. |
137 | ||
|
| ||||
I |
|
Abstract and concrete. |
144 | ||
|
| ||||
I |
|
Possibility and reality. |
167 | ||
|
| ||||
I |
|
The price-system in the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1950s. |
186 | ||
|
1 |
Prices based on value. |
190 | ||
IV |
|
Combinations of price-systems and "two-channel prices". |
202 | ||
|
1 |
Value and socially-necessary labour-time. |
214 | ||
IX |
|
The specificity of the price problem in the economy of transition |
223 | ||
Appendix to Chapter Six Bibliography on the problem of prices in the |
| ||||
| |||||
|
|