Socially Mixed Economies: How Social Gains Develop in Opposed Systems
Have you ever considered what the middle ground between capitalism and socialism would look like? Socially Mixed Economies offers a tantalizing snapshot of this brave new world, a third way born of compromise by countries accepting that social gains can develop in opposed systems.

John Weber takes the reader on an intellectual journey through the give-and-take of post Cold War history. Drawing on examples from Europe, the United States, and the developing world this provocative work suggests that today's political landscape is far from polarized between purely socialist and capitalist regimes. Rather than documenting the triumph of "pure" capitalism over "pure" socialism, by means of different country-specific examples, Weber illustrates how much of today's political fabric has been shaped by "concessions." The result is a socially mixed economy, of coexisting capitalist and socialist structures. This is essential reading for economists, political scientists, and historians seeking to understand the evolution of a new transitional society and its important, unprecedented consequences for twenty-first century world politics.
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Socially Mixed Economies: How Social Gains Develop in Opposed Systems
Have you ever considered what the middle ground between capitalism and socialism would look like? Socially Mixed Economies offers a tantalizing snapshot of this brave new world, a third way born of compromise by countries accepting that social gains can develop in opposed systems.

John Weber takes the reader on an intellectual journey through the give-and-take of post Cold War history. Drawing on examples from Europe, the United States, and the developing world this provocative work suggests that today's political landscape is far from polarized between purely socialist and capitalist regimes. Rather than documenting the triumph of "pure" capitalism over "pure" socialism, by means of different country-specific examples, Weber illustrates how much of today's political fabric has been shaped by "concessions." The result is a socially mixed economy, of coexisting capitalist and socialist structures. This is essential reading for economists, political scientists, and historians seeking to understand the evolution of a new transitional society and its important, unprecedented consequences for twenty-first century world politics.
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Socially Mixed Economies: How Social Gains Develop in Opposed Systems

Socially Mixed Economies: How Social Gains Develop in Opposed Systems

by John Weber
Socially Mixed Economies: How Social Gains Develop in Opposed Systems

Socially Mixed Economies: How Social Gains Develop in Opposed Systems

by John Weber

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Have you ever considered what the middle ground between capitalism and socialism would look like? Socially Mixed Economies offers a tantalizing snapshot of this brave new world, a third way born of compromise by countries accepting that social gains can develop in opposed systems.

John Weber takes the reader on an intellectual journey through the give-and-take of post Cold War history. Drawing on examples from Europe, the United States, and the developing world this provocative work suggests that today's political landscape is far from polarized between purely socialist and capitalist regimes. Rather than documenting the triumph of "pure" capitalism over "pure" socialism, by means of different country-specific examples, Weber illustrates how much of today's political fabric has been shaped by "concessions." The result is a socially mixed economy, of coexisting capitalist and socialist structures. This is essential reading for economists, political scientists, and historians seeking to understand the evolution of a new transitional society and its important, unprecedented consequences for twenty-first century world politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780739102701
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 09/12/2001
Pages: 216
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

The late John Weber was a self employed writer living in New York.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword by James Lawler
Chapter 2 Subverted at Birth
Chapter 3 The Socialistic Shorter Working Day
Chapter 4 The Grandest Concession
Chapter 5 What If They Have No Boots?
Chapter 6 Two Centuries: Two Concessions
Chapter 7 Double Trouble for Women
Chapter 8 The Movement Toward an Economic Bill of Rights
Chapter 9 The Second Reconstruction
Chapter 10 Health Care as Socialist Intruder
Chapter 11 The Forty-Four Main Concessions and Some Patterns Observed
Chapter 12 Two Worlds Or One?
Chapter 13 The German Model
Chapter 14 French and Italian Statism
Chapter 15 The Wayward Six in Eastern Europe
Chapter 16 The Vietnamese and Cuban Models
Chapter 17 India's Special Ways Toward the Mix
Chapter 18 The Portent of "Chinese Characteristics"
Chapter 19 Four Mixtures Made in Russia
Chapter 20 The Arena of Future Third Ways
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