Political regimes influence contents of education and criteria used to select and evaluate students. We study the impact of a socialist education on the likelihood of obtaining a college degree and on several labor market outcomes by exploiting the reorganization of the school system in East...

Conditions of malnutrition, conflict, or a combination of both characterize many Arab countries, but this was not always so. As in much of the developing world, the immediate post-independence period represented an age of hope and relative prosperity. But imperialism did not sleep while these...

Twentieth-century socialism -- On socialism : association of free individuals -- Commodity production -- Simple commodity production -- Commodity production and socialism in Marx's followers -- On socialist accounting -- Anarchist communism -- Concerning guild socialism -- On market socialism --...

Globalization under and after socialism : a comparative and historical perspective -- The limits of autarchy in the periphery : trade, planning, and East European industrialization, 1946-69 -- Upgrading socialism : technology, debt, and East European reform, 1968-85 -- Socialist...

This easy-to-read book explores the fundamental ideas of socialism as a prelude to the critical reappraisal of their implementation in the Soviet revolutionary experiment. The book then discusses the economic changes of the neoliberal era.--from the back cover

What happens when an entire modern state's material culture becomes abruptly obsolete? How do ordinary people encounter what remains? In this ethnography, Jonathan Bach examines the afterlife of East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, as things and places from that vanished socialist...

Prólogo : ante el fin del socialismo rentista, una propuesta de reforma económica / José Guerra -- Problemas políticos de un programa de reformas económicas / Diego Bautista Urbaneja -- Venezuela : un balance del socialismo del siglo XXI / Asdrúbal Oliveiros y Carlos Miguel Álvarez --...

Preface: March 17, 1883 -- Trier (1818-1836) -- Bonn and Berlin (1836-1842) -- Cologne (1842-1843) -- Paris (1843-1845) -- Brussels (1845-1848) -- Cologne II (1848-1849) -- London I (1849-1859): "The second as farce" -- London II (1859-1883): "The greatest living thinker" -- Major works: the...

Comprehensive collectivization in Kirghiz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1929-1932: overcoming bias and partiality in assessing modernizing effects of Soviet collectivization on the Kyrgyz and their developmental advancement / (Bakyt Baimatov, PhD, Central Asian Program (CAP), Elliott...

The patrimonial state under Venezuela's twenty-first century socialism / Humberto García L., president, National Academy of Economic Sciences of Venezuela, Venezuela -- Use and potential of plant species biodiversity in Venezuela agroforestry systems : cultural, environmental, social and...

Introduction -- The original idea: the consummation of the revolution in social freedom -- An antiquated intellectual structure: the spirit and culture of industrialism -- Paths of renewal (1): socialism as historical experimentalism -- Paths of renewal (2): the idea of a democratic form of life