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

• Main Author: Kemp, Simon (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Comparative politics.; Russia > Politics and government.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Industrial and Organizational Psychology.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Comparative Politics.; Russian and Post-Soviet Politics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. The Aims of Communism
• Chapter 2. What is Success for a Communist Economic System?
• Chapter 4. A Short History of Communism
• Chapter 5. Possible Psychological Flaws in Communism
• Chapter 6. The Coordination Problem
• Chapter 7. Incentives
• Chapter 8. Psychological Ownership
• Chapter 9. Learned Helplessness, Locus of Control, Self-efficacy
• Chapter 10. Does Communism Empower Evil?
• Chapter 11. Conclusions.