Macro-control is an important system of regulation in the body of socialist market economy; it plays a significant role in the social economy. To make it come into play, it is necessary for us to avoid the grave twists in the economy development. For the past few years, the unbalance of our economy development and the speculation makes a negative effect to the normal development of socialist ec...

The author analyzes changes in the rate of migration and choice of destination among migrants from socialist countries in eastern and southern Europe to the United States and Canada during the period 1941-1990. "The data presented show that in the period in question the immigrants from the European socialist countries constituted only 2.9% of the total number of immigrants to the U.S.A. while ...

In Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China, Julian Gewirtz argues that a coalition of Chinese reformers and Western economists made it possible for the post-Mao economic reform to emerge in the 1980s. Although “Foreign Minister Wang Yi recently claimed that ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’ was ‘grown out of the soil of China,’ and former ...

Abstract – The paper considers end-use electricity consumption and efficiency trends in transition countries, i.e. ten former socialist states that are now new EU members, and the Republic of Croatia as a candidate country. For the last twenty years, transition countries are in the process of changing their social, economic and political structures with considerable influence on the electricity...

Abstract The individual is still rare in working-class history, and, when we find them, they are often, like Bebel and Lula, exceptional. We interested them as leaders of vital mass movements because had an important impact on their societies. But another part the promise biographies these opportunity to approach personal dimensions experience through life. Bringing two together highlights dive...