Author(s): Ota Sik
Publisher: Academia publishing house of the Czechoslovak Academy of sciences
Year: 1967
Language: English
Pages: 382
City: Prague
Preface
I. DEVELOPMENT OF A SOCIALIST MARKET THEORY AND ITS PRACTICAL APPLICATION IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA
1) Prevalent Marxist views on market relationships under socialism
2) Results of applying erroneous commodity-money theories, and management by administrative measures in the economy of Czechoslovakia
II. A planned economy and market relationships
1) The general and direct social orientation of labour under socialism
a) Planned management of economic activity under socialism
b) Relation of the general and the individual in planned development
c) Organization of management and proportions of production
d) Relation of the short-term and the long-term aspect in planned development
2) The necessity for socialist market relationships
a) The necessity for an optimum development of socialist production and market relationships
b) The character of labour, consumption, and commodity relations
c) Relation between material and moral incentives
d) Socialist cooperative labour and market relationships
3) Special features of socialist market relationships
a) The development of the relation between value and use valu
b) Special features of commodity reproduction
III. Special features of socialist price formation
1) Basic construction of prices
2) Economic formation of wholesale prices and their trends
3) Construction of trade prices
4) Market or retail prices
IV. MONEY UNDER SOCIALISM
1) Previous concepts of money under socialism
2) The function of money under socialism
a) Internal and external conditions for the value base of money
b) Media of circulation and of payment
3) Management of financial processes in the new system
4) Using financial instruments in planning
V. CONCLUSION
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
