Catherine Samary

Education

Catherine received her Doctor of Philosophy in economics in 1986, at the University of Paris X: Nanterre.

Career

Her research focuses on five themes:

issues concerning planning, market relationship of property, democracy

globalisation and the capitalist restoration - comparative aspects, theoretical questions

criteria of efficiency and social justice in economy

She is the author of numerous books, which are listed below:

Dissertation on the Yugoslav reforms from 1947 to 1980. Later published as Le marche contre l"autogestion (Paris, PubliSud/Louisiana Breche, 1988) (). Yugoslavia Dismembered (translated by Peter Drucker, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1995) ()

She also contributed an article to Gilbert Achcar"s collection on The Legacy of Ernest Mandel.

Achievements

• She is a co-founder of its largest section, the Revolutionary Communist League.

Politics

Theoretical and practical questions of socialism

analysis of socialist experiences and in particular, the implications of their reforms and crises pertaining to Yugoslavia and other nations

"Plan, market and democracy: the experience of the so-called socialist countries" (Amsterdam, International Institute for Research and Education, Notebook Number 7/8, 1988).