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| Preface | |
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| A Note on the Notes | |
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| Addendum to Preface, January 1984 | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Introduction: Socialism--Why? | |
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| The Legacy of Marx | |
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| What Did Marx Mean by Socialism? | |
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| Abundance, Scarcity and the New Man | |
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| The Law of Value under Socialism | |
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| A Digression on Marxian Economics | |
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| Sancta Simplicitas | |
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| The Ex Ante Illusion | |
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| Quality and Quantity | |
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| Division of Labour | |
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| Material and Moral Incentives | |
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| The 'Proletariat' and Productive Labour | |
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| The Legacy of Marx: Some Conclusions | |
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| Addendum: More on Human Psychology and 'Reductionism' | |
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| Socialism and the Soviet Experience | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Externalities and 'Internalities' | |
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| Shortages and the Sellers' Market | |
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| Planning Indicators and the Evaluation of Performance | |
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| The 'Curse of Scale', Innovation and Bureaucratic Fragmentation | |
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| Is It Planning? | |
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| Class Structure, Labour, Wages and Trade Unions | |
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| Agriculture and the Peasants | |
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| Investment Decisions and Criteria in Theory and Practice | |
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| Prices in Theory and Practice | |
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| Mathematical Methods and Programming | |
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| Growth and Full Employment | |
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| Foreign Trade | |
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| The Cost of What Is Missing | |
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| Conclusion: Centralised Planning and Democratic Socialism | |
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| A Short Digression on 'Ideology' | |
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| Reform Models and Experiences | |
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| Some 'Revisionist' Critiques | |
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| The Hungarian Reform | |
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| Yugoslavia and Workers' Self-Management | |
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| Private Agriculture in Yugoslavia and Poland: Peasants and Farmers | |
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| The Polish Experience: the Road to Catastrophe | |
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| China: Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution and Reform | |
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| Transition | |
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| Some Introductory Remarks | |
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| Transition I: From Capitalism to Socialism | |
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| Some Thoughts on Nationalisation | |
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| Transition II: From 'Socialism' to Socialism | |
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| 'Developmental Socialism' | |
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| Feasible Socialism? | |
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| Some Social-Political Assumptions | |
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| Enterprises, Markets and Competition | |
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| Prices, Profits and Theory of Value | |
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| Division of Labour, Wage Differentials and Self-Management | |
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| Investments and Growth | |
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| Foreign Trade | |
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| The Economic Role of Democratic Politics | |
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| Is It Socialism? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Appendix 1: On Contradiction | |
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| Appendix 2: Three Critiques | |
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| Appendix 3: A Note on Utopia | |
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| Index | |