Charles
Bettelheim

Economic
Calculation
and
Forms
of
Property

 



An Essay on the Transition
Between Capitalism and Socialism



© 1975 by Monthly Review Press

Translated by John Taylor
 
Originally published under the title
Calcul économique et formes de propriété
by François Maspero, Paris, France
© 1970 by Librairie François Maspero



Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, [email protected] (June 2000, Corrected December 2016)


Contents




Translator's note

vii

Preface


ix


I.  Economic calculation and monetary calculation


1.  Situating the problem

3

2.  The "presence" of commodity categories

28


II.  State property, enterprise, and planning


1.  State property in social formations in transition
   between capitalism and socialism


71

2.  Unit of production and "enterprise"

108

3.  Planning and the predominance of state property

130

4.  The structures of the processes of production
   money, and the plan



157


General bibliography

165

Supplementary bibliography

167




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