社会主義経済崩壊の基礎理論

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The purpose of this paper is to present a cause of the collapse of the socialist economic systems other than those was discussed until the 1980s. Since the Soviet Union was founded in 1917, many have criticized the socialist economic systems. The first deficiency of the socialist economic systems discussed was the inability of the central planning agencies to handle all the information in a centralized manner. W. Brus divided economic decision-making into three dimensions and proposed to leave the decision-making concerning the current operation of the enterprises to the enterprises themselves. Hungary and the Soviet Union followed this proposal and implemented the economic reforms for decentralization. But the economic situation of the socialist economies did not improve. J. Kornai presented a keyword, the "soft budget constraint", and showed the necessity of hardening the budget constraint and of making enterprises face bankruptcy discipline when their financial situations worsen. There is, however, another important cause of the collapse of the socialist economic systems. In the socialist economic systems where the means of production are state-owned and the governments make the decisions concerning major investment projects and the establishment of new enterprises, it can not be guaranteed that the governments make the right decisions. In fact, the socialist governments did not make the decisions to follow the energy saving and computerization wave of the 1980s. To accelerate technological innovation, the socialist economies were doomed to give up state ownership and to liberalize not only the current operation of existing enterprises but also the decision-making concerning major investment enterprises by creating financial markets. Economic systems without centralized decision-making and state ownership of the means of production could not be called socialist economic systems but market economic systems.
神戸大学の論文
1996-03-21

社会主義経済崩壊の基礎理論

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