Was Communism Doomed? : Human Nature, Psychology and the Communist Economy.

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Was Communism Doomed? : Human Nature, Psychology and the Communist Economy.

9783319327808
3319327801
3319327798
9783319327792

Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2016.

English

1 online resource (285 pages)

10.1007/978-3-319-32780-8 doi

BF1-990

150

This book explores whether the ideology of communism was doomed to failure due to psychological rather than structural flaws. Does communism fail because there is not enough individual incentive and does it discourage psychological ownership? If so, does it produce learned helplessness and therefore empower evil? This book considers such questions, both with respect to how communism actually functioned and how it could have functioned using examples from Eastern Europe and the USSR itself during the 20th century. It reviews both the ideology of communism and its history, as well as the basic but difficult question of how one might decide whether an economic system can be defined as successful or not. Simon Kemp is Professor of Psychology at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, with long-standing interests in economic psychology and the history of psychology. His previous books include Public Goods and Private Wants: A Psychological Approach to Government Spending and Medieval Psychology. He has also been editor of the Journal of Economic Psychology.

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