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  title info:
    title: Dynamism, rivalry, and the surplus economy
    sub title: two essays on the nature of capitalism
  name:
    name part: Kornai, János
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
  abstract: Kornai examines capitalism as an economic system and in comparison to socialism. He offers a view of capitalism as an economy of surplus - a chronic excess of supply of goods and labour. This environment breeds rivalry among producers, which in turn encourages innovation. Socialism, on the other hand, is defined by a shortage of goods and labour and excess of demand. Whereas socialism is slothful and imitative, capitalism is dynamic and progressive. The two chapters of this book explore these differing ideologies.
  table of contents: Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; FIRST ESSAY: Innovation; 1. Introduction; 2. Capitalism, Socialism, and Technical Progress; 2.1. Revolutionary new products; 2.2. Following the pioneers, the diffusion of innovation; 2.3. Innovative entrepreneurship under capitalism; 2.4. The impossibility of innovative entrepreneurship under socialism; 2.5. Political factors and technical progress; 2.6. First summary: systems and technical progress; 3. Transformation and the Acceleration of Technical Progress; 3.1. New innovator entrepreneurs
  table of contents: 3.2. The acceleration of follow-up and diffusion3.3. Creative destruction; 4. Reflection of Historical Reality in People's Minds; 4.1. The basic phenomenon: lack of understanding; 4.2. The responsibility of the economic profession; 4.3. The responsibility of politicians; 4.4. Interconnectivity and democracy; 5. Concluding Remarks; SECOND ESSAY: Shortage Economy-Surplus Economy; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Impressions; 1.2. A first approach to clarification of concepts; 1.3. The place that the approach taken in the essay occupies in economic discourse
  table of contents: 1.4. An advance look at the boundaries and structure of the subject-matter2. The Market for Goods and Services: The Mechanism for the Reproduction of Surplus; 2.1. An example from economic history: the U.S. telephone system; 2.2. Supply-related processes; 2.3. Demand-related processes; 2.4. The pricing process; 3. The Market for Goods and Services: The Conceptual Apparatus and Measurement Methods; 3.1. "Pure," easily handled cases; 3.2. The first difficulty: continual mutual adjustment of supply and demand; 3.3. The second difficulty: parallel occurrences of excess supply and excess demand
  table of contents: 3.4. Diversion: observing the obstacles to and micro constraints of production3.5. The third difficulty: distinguishing "necessary" from "superfl uous" stocks; 3.6. The fourth difficulty: unjustified aggregation; 3.7. Pragmatic suggestions for measurement and a conceptual apparatus; 3.8. Formation of synthetic indicators or "composite indices"; 4. The Labor Market: The Mechanism for the Reproduction of Surplus; 4.1. Conceptual clarification and measurement; 4.2. The shock to the labor market caused by the change of system; 4.3. "Keynesian" unemployment; 4.4. Structural unemployment
  table of contents: 4.5. Mismatched adjustment, frictional unemployment, and demand4.6. The efficiency wage; 5. A Summary of the Positive Description and Causal Analysis; 5.1. The workability of the concept of "equilibrium"; 5.2. Asymmetry; 5.3. A summary account of the two demand-supply regimes; 5.4. The generation of a surplus economy by the capitalist system: the causal chain; 5.5. Genetic propensities; 6. The Effect and Assessment of the Surplus Economy; 6.1. A view of the effects and the value judgments; 6.2. Innovation; 6.3. The sovereignty and manipulation of the consumer
  target audience: specialized
  note: János Kornai.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Capitalism
  subject:
    topic: Socialism
  subject:
    topic: Surplus (Economics)
  subject:
    topic: Surplus (Économie politique)
  subject:
    topic: Capitalism
  subject:
    topic: Socialism
  subject:
    topic: Surplus (Economics)
  classification: HB501 .K583 2014
  classification: 330.122
  identifier: 9780199369416
  identifier: 0199369410
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: UAB
    record creation date: 131213
    record change date: 20260318192724.7
    record identifier: in00005710342
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng