Consistency and Viability of Socialist Economic Systems

John Marangos is Professor in the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Greece.

"John Marangos examines the viability of socialist economic systems from a social science perspective instead of from a narrow mainstream economics perspective. Consequently, he provides a much better understanding of their successes and failures. This is certainly needed in the light of the world-wide crisis caused by the adoption of neoliberal policies." - Frederic S. Lee, Professor of Economics, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA and Editor, American Journal of Economics and Sociology

• 1. The Soviet Union. From Superpower Status to Collapse 2. Consistency and Viability Of The Liberman-Kosygin Reform. The Limited Market Relations Socialist Model 3. Consistency and Viability Of The Gorbachev Reforms 4. Yugoslavia: From Workers' Self-Managed Market Socialism to the Breakup