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Włodzimierz Brus and the Law of Value Under Socialism

In: Polish Marxism after Luxemburg

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This paper surveys the intellectual trajectory of the Polish political economist Włodzimierz Brus, who took up the arguments for use of the ‘price mechanism’ in socialism from the pre-War work of Oskar Lange. Brus advanced the idea that a ‘Law of Value’ applied under socialism, which would allow prices and appropriate material incentives to bring the socialist economy into equilibrium. Kalecki, however, opposed the use of cost-minimising incentives, and Brus never fully resolved the problem of how investment is to be guided in a decentralised way. A lively discussion of ‘market socialism’ did not survive the 1960s. In exile from 1972, Brus participated in China's post-Mao discussions on economic reform. But his interest in prices and markets under socialism ceased effectively with the fall of Communism at the end of the 1980s.

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  • Jan Toporowski, 2022. "Włodzimierz Brus and the Law of Value Under Socialism," Research in Political Economy, in: Polish Marxism after Luxemburg, volume 37, pages 173-185, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:rpeczz:s0161-723020220000037011
    DOI: 10.1108/S0161-723020220000037011
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