The Evolution of Economic Systems Essays in Honor of Ota Sik
Honouring Ota Sik's economics, political life, and his social and humane concerns, this book brings together contributions from economists from East and West. It examines principally the evolution of different economic systems.
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The Evolution of Economic Systems Essays in Honor of Ota Sik Edited by
Kurt Dopfer
Professor of Economics University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and
Karl-F. Raible
Assistant to Ota Sik University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 978-1-349-11155-8
ISBN 978-1-349-11153-4 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-11153-4
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Kurt Dopfer and Karl-F. Raible, 1990 Softcover reprint of the hardcover I st edition 1990
All rights reserved. For information, write: Scholarly and Reference Division, St. Martin's Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 First published in the United States of America in 1990
ISBN 978-0-312-04497-8 Library of Congress CataIoging-in-Publication Data The evolution of economic systems: essays in honor of Ota Sik/ edited by Kurt Dopfer and Karl-F. Raible. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-312-04497-8 1. Comparative economics. 2. Capitalism. 3. CentraI planning-Communist countries. 4. Communist countries-Economic policy. 5. Sik, Ota, 1919-. I. Dopfer, Kurt. II. Raible, Kar! -F. 111. Sik, Ota, 1919HB90.E96 1990 338.9'009171'7-dc20 89-70274 CIP
Contents jrontispiece
Ota Sik
viii
List of Figures Preface
ix
Notes on the Contributors
x
1 Introduction: Sik's Third Way of Economic Evolution Kurt Dopfer
1
Part I An Interdisciplinary View 2 Changing Priorities Jan Tinbergen
21
3 Limitations to the Interdependence of Systems Gerhard Schwarz
32
4 Economics, Environment and the Faustian Imperative Hans Christoph Binswanger, Malte Faber and Reiner Manstetten
43
5 Systems Reproduction in Interdisciplinary Perspective Leonhard Bauer and Herbert Matis
59
6 Why Some Reforms Succeed Gerhard O. Mensch
68
7 A Cognitive-evolutionary Theory of Economic Policy Alfred Meier and Susanne Haury
77
Part 11 The Evolution of Market Systems: (1) Principal Aspects of Market Evolution 8 Evolution and Stagnation of Economic Systems Ernst Heuss 9 The Self-organisation of the Economy Michael Hutter
91 100 111
10 Evolution and Innovation Jochen Röpke
v
vi 11
Contents Waves in Long-term Economie Development Rene Hältsehi and Christian Roekstroh
121
Part 11 The Evolution of Market Systems: (2) Reproduction,Institutions and Governmental Planning
12 Plan, Market and Banking f.A. Kregel
133
13 The Market and the Classieal Theory of Priees Bertram Sehejold
141
14 Some Thoughts on Plan and Market Alee Nove
155
15 An Institutionalist View of the Evolution of Economie Systems Mare R. Tool
165
Part 111 The Evolution of Planning Systems: (1) General Evolution of Planning Systems 16
Socialist Experience and Ota Sik's Third Way
ffr( Kosta
17 Soeialism as a Soeio-eeonomie System Branko Horvat 18 On the Reformability of the Soviet-type Eeonomie Systems Leszek Baleerowiez 19 Strategie Reappraisal and Short-term Adjustment: The External Eeonomie Poliey of Socialist Countries at the Crossroads Andrds Inotai 20 The Teehnologieal Gap in the CMEA Countries: Missing Ineentives Friedrieh Levcik
17
