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1.
THE NEW COMMONWEALTH. FROM BUREAUCRATIC CORPORATISM TO SOCIALIST CAPITALISM,
by Claudiu A. Secara, 1996, $18.95, 316 pp. (096460731X).
"We are also in the middle of reforms. In China they call it a
socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics. Russia
is not building capitalism either - it is building a market
economy with its own specific flavor."
Boris Yeltsin, April 28, 1996, Shanghai.
The attempt at integrating a Free-Market system worldwide is testing all
foundations of the industrial societies. The need to redefine the concepts
of Business Enterprise, State/Public Capitalism, Corporate Entrepreneurship,
Social Market Economy, International Trade/Security Regimes, etc., becomes
ever less of an academic reflection as events move faster than their
descriptions.
In fact, as the book demonstrates, it is the opposite development that is
more significant nowadays, which is the American convergence upon the rest
of the world in search of the Social Market Capitalism and the implicit
message to the newly emerging market economies.
It happens that, in the United States itself, the very tools of capitalist
economic policy, i.e. capital markets, capital allocation instruments,
equity markets, capital formation and dividend distribution, etc., are
paying the ticket to the Mutual Funded Social Market: the Employee Pension
Funds, the Employee Stock Ownership Plans, the Value-Added Partnership, the
Non-Profit Sector, Business Associations, etc. In addition, the undergoing
reform of Capital Allocation instruments, Insurance and Health Care systems,
Education and Training, Judicial system, Labor vs. Management institutions,
International Managed Trade regimes, etc., all indicate a decisive turning
point in the workings and the principles of once laissez-faire capitalism.
State/Public Leadership, Social Market Economy, International Statutes &
Laws - the essentials of the American convergence, upon the rest of the
world, to Social Market Capitalism are in place. Its tools are the
capitalist economic policies: capital/equity distribution instruments,
profits vs. wages guideliness, mutual and pension funds, etc.
The authir brings academic logic and common sense reflection to the subject
of the philosophy of modern history and leads the reader through the
intricate web of the history of high-ground politics and international
intrigues with a touch of irony and intellectual impartiality. It is the
story of the world of power politics of past/post industrialization, of
nations coalescing into regional unions and of their small time rulers
further rationalized into the novel structure of the emerging global elites.
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2.
POST-SOVIET, EUROSLAVIA, by Claudiu A. Secara, 1996, $6.00, 60 pp. (0964607301).
Out of the roughly 700 million population, the new Eurasian Community has
approximately 180 million Russian speaking natives, but it includes about
360 million Slavic speaking population, or, in other, words, the needed
simple majority. The paper examines why in such Commonwealth's general
election chances are that a continental new representative parliament would
muster enough votes to have the red/pink panslavism reign as the popularly
elected Sovereign of Euroslavia.
Is Panslavism a factor in the making of Euroslavia?
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3.
Coming soon: TIME & EGO. The Judeo-Christian Egotheism and the Anglo-Saxon
Industrial Revolution (0964607328).
The first question of the abstract reflection that arouses controversy is,
indeed, the problem of becoming. Being persists, beings constantly change;
they are born and they pass away. How could Being change and be eternal? The
journey for the logical and the experimental answer has just taken off.
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T H E N E W C O M M O N W E A L T H
T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
Introduction
Chapter I - The Social Market
The Social Market
The Accounting Nature of Capitalism
Closed vs Open Capitalist Systems
Forms of Socialized Capitalism
Individualistic vs Communitarian Capitalism
The Profit Motive
The Social Capitalism
The Social Market Commonwealt
Chapter II - The Historical Context
The International Power Market
The German Way
The American Way
The Russian Way
The Interconnected World System
The Mediterranean Ecosystem
The European In-Land Farming
The Affluent Farming Societies
The Emergence of the Military-Industrial Corporation
The Anglo-Saxons and the Slavs
The Batttle over Europe
The Balkanization of the World
Chapter III - The Economic Models' Question
The Interventionist Philosophy
The Traditional Centrally Planned Model
To Reform or Not to Reform
Internal Factors of Decline
External Factors of Decline
In the Pursuit of Socialism with a Human Face
Reforms and Their Results
Motivation vs. Management
The Ambiguities of "Decentralization"
Market Competition under Central Planning
International Markets along National Competition
Managed Social Markets
Chapter IV - Cold War Industries' Life Cycle
The American Pursuit of a Military Economy
The Aeronautical Industry
Air Industry Support Industry
Soviet Union's Militarized Economy
The Detente
Chapter V - The Global Economic Scene
The Soviet Union's Deteriorating Economy
The United States' Deteriorating Leadership
The Question of Labor Shortages
Russian Industrialization
The Russian Agricultural Revolution
More Labor Power Through Service Automation
Reinventing the Feudal Work System
The Industrial Technocracy
The Historical Curve to Global Market Socialism
Chapter VI - The Pitfalls of a Market Reform
Market Economy and Privatization
Markets without Capitalist Support Systems
The Trans-Atlantic Market Fault
European vs. American Investments
The Similarity of Former Comecom Countries' Reform
Playing the Market with Socialist Nomeklatura
Playing Socialism at the Stock Market
The Concept of Managed Markets
Chapter VII - The Invisible Revolution
The Ownership Distribution in the US
The Employee Stock Ownership Program
Industrial Policy with a Capitalist Face
A Historical Framework
The French Auto Industry's Experience
The Japanese Semiconductor Industry's Experience
The German Steel Industry's Experience
The United States' Experience
Chapter VIII - The Making of the Eurasia
Ideology and Political Convergence within Europe
Internal Adjustments vs External Realignments
The Post-Soviet, Euroslavia
The Bureaucratic Nature of Military Societies
The Thaw, Finally
Security Matters in the Absence of Military Command
Elections - Legitimizing of the Old Guards
Events within Regularities - the Cycle History
The Aristotelism of Global Politics
Soft versus Hard Style Management
Hypothesizing on the Future
The Intelligentsia in Power
The Birth of Eurasia
Notes
Bibliography
Index