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Can Socialism innovate? Soviet lessons and the dependent resilience of global capitalism
  • Dmitry Pozhidaev
  • December 6, 2025
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Can Socialism innovate? Soviet lessons and the dependent resilience of global capitalism

Introduction It has become almost an article of faith among economists that a key reason for the demise of the Soviet economic system, and of “really existing socialism” more broadly, was its i

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Would Marx Approve This Year’s Nobel?
  • Dmitry Pozhidaev
  • November 7, 2025

Would Marx Approve This Year’s Nobel?

Innovation won the Nobel this year. Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt were honored for a simple engine: invention plus incentives plus diffusion equals growth. Marx wouldn’t quarrel w

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