Formal similarity and real distinction between capitalist and socialist economic planning

IF 5 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS
Tiago Camarinha Lopes
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Abstract

The paper departs from a broad definition of economic planning and presents a simple formalization of the law of value to develop a paralleled abstract and concrete analysis in comparative economic systems. Using the dialectical method to overcome superficial dichotomies involving structural processes of economies labeled as either capitalist or socialist, it argues that both economies can develop a form of planning that is at the same time formally similar to and real distinct from each other. By proposing this axis of separation, the paper explains that much of the confusion in the study of comparative economic systems in the 21st century stems from adopting a rigid perspective that fails to embrace the flexibility necessary to connect various levels of analysis, from abstract (theory) to concrete (empirics). Taking the current geopolitical systems under the influence of the United States and China as exemplary cases for the idealized separation between capitalism and socialism, it is shown in which way they can be considered simultaneously equal and different.
资本主义计划经济与社会主义计划经济的形式相似与现实区别
本文脱离了经济计划的广义定义,提出了价值规律的简单形式化,以便在比较经济系统中进行并行的抽象和具体分析。使用辩证的方法来克服涉及被标记为资本主义或社会主义的经济结构过程的表面二分法,它认为两种经济都可以发展出一种计划形式,这种形式在形式上是相似的,同时又彼此不同。通过提出这一分离轴,本文解释了21世纪比较经济体系研究中的许多混乱源于采用了一种僵化的视角,而未能拥抱连接从抽象(理论)到具体(经验)的不同分析层次所必需的灵活性。以美国和中国影响下的当前地缘政治体系为例,以资本主义和社会主义的理想化分离为例,表明它们可以同时被认为是平等和不同的。
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4.90%
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159
期刊介绍: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics publishes articles about theoretical, applied and methodological aspects of structural change in economic systems. The journal publishes work analysing dynamics and structural breaks in economic, technological, behavioural and institutional patterns.
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