Re: Lenin's NEP & Paul Phillips on Yugoslavia

["James K. Galbraith" <lpgc403@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Reply to Phil O'Hara

Points well taken.  My comments were directed at the influence
of the ideas in Preobrazhensky's book, and at the evidence it gives that the
upheaval in economic theory in the West in the 1920s and 30s had extended to the perception of capitalism
in the Soviet Union. Richard Day's exegesis, published along with The
Decline of Capitalism in 1985 by M.E. Sharpe, also suggests, I dimly recall,
that Preobrazhensky's ideas lived on in the Novosibirsk school, which then provided much of the
initial impetus for perestroika.  Comments on this thesis?
James Galbraith
The University of Texas at Austin
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