THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM AS AN END OR AS A MEANS AND THE FUTURE OF SOCIALISM AND CAPITALISM: AN EVOLUTIONARY VIEWPOINT

Alberto Chilosi

Development and Comp Systems from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: After the demise of “real” socialism and the decline of “western” socialism, socialism can be salvaged as a social preference system oriented towards equality and social justice, to be implemented without systemic constraints in the organizational and institutional sense. At the same time there is a case for maintaining an institutional framework allowing different forms of economic organization, capitalist and non- capitalist, to compete on equal footing, in an evolutionary perspective, thus allowing the second to develop if proven efficient. Another way for a spontaneous extension of the domain of socialism could derive from the socialization of consumption, if the consumption of public goods continues to make up a growing component of real consumption.

Keywords: socialism; capitalism; third sector; socialization of consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: P1 P2 P3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2003-05-30, Revised 2003-09-14
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