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Are Socialism, Planned Economy, and Collectivism Responsible for the Calamities?

In: Telling the Truth: China’s Great Leap Forward, Household Registration and the Famine Death Tally

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  • Songlin Yang

    (Henan Provincial Development Research Center)

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In this chapter the author refutes assertions that food shortage is a doomed feature of the planned economy and that the market economy is the cure. Employing historical evidence and statistical data, Yang Songlin argues that there is no definitive causality between planned economy and shortage as suggested by Janos Kornai and others. Famine and casualties from hunger can happen in the market economies and in democracies, like India. While the world has long been able to produce sufficient food to feed its entire population, many countries in Africa are still struggling to provide basic livelihood for their people.

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  • Songlin Yang, 2021. "Are Socialism, Planned Economy, and Collectivism Responsible for the Calamities?," Springer Books, in: Telling the Truth: China’s Great Leap Forward, Household Registration and the Famine Death Tally, chapter 0, pages 243-259, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-16-1661-7_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-1661-7_14
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