014 - Markets In The Name Of Socialism

Explore the co-opting of ideas from economists on both sides of the Iron Curtain, little-known history of interviews with economists from around the world, collaboration between Soviet and American planning structures, decentralization of economy and worker ownership, challenges to neoclassical economics and reforms in the Eastern Bloc, initiatives and opposition to market socialism in Yugoslavia, debate between centralized planning and market economies in socialism, factors behind the hijacking of socialist dialogue and the adoption of neoliberal reforms, dominance of neoclassical economics and academic nature of a book on economics history.