Socialist Economic Systems provides an objective record of socialism's promises and performance 1820-2022, identifies a feasible path forward and provides a rigorous analytic framework for the comparison of economic systems.

Steven Rosefielde is Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

List of Figures and Tables, Acknowledgements, Preface, Executive Summary, Methodology, Introduction, Part I Socialist Cross Currents 1820-1920, Chapter 1 Utopia, Chapter 2 Libertarian Socialism, Chapter 3 Socialist Utopian Fiction, Chapter 4 Marxist-Leninism, Part II Marxist-Leninism 1917-1991, Chapter 5 Bolshevik Revolution, Chapter 6 Planning, Chapter 7 Perestroika, Chapter 8 Worker Self-Management, Chapter 9 Maoism, Chapter 10 Castroism, Chapter 11 Reform Communism, Chapter 12 World Communism, Chapter 13 Dystopian Socialist Fiction, Chapter 14 Crimes against Humanity, Chapter 15 Oblivion, Part III Post Command Planning, Chapter 16 Chinese Market Communism, Chapter 17 Democratic Socialism, Chapter 18 Anarcho-Socialism, Chapter 19 New Age Planning, Chapter 20 Egalitarian Socialism, Chapter 21 Japanese Communalism, Chapter 22 Twenty-first Century Socialism, Conclusion, Appendix 1 Bergson's Systems Function, Appendix 2 Marx, Lenin and Stalin, Appendix 3 Marxist Economics, Appendix 4 Perfect Competitive Benchmark, Appendix 5 Soviet Statistics, Index