Background
Brus, Wlodzimierz was born on August 23, 1921 in Plock, Poland. Son of Abram and Helena (Askanas) Zylberberg.
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Distinguished economists Brus and Laski-who were involved with the Planning Office of the Polish economy in the 1950s and 1960s-here develop a theoretical system of economic management which avoids the failings of both market capitalism and central planning. This book examines Marxists claim to socialism's economic rationality and studies the application of the concept in the "real socialism" of Communist party orthodoxy as well as in the tentative attempts at "market socialism", particularly in Hungary and Yugoslavia. The analysis focuses on general features of the evolution of the socialist economic system, but national experiences are used to point out the advances that have been made and the flaws in the theoretical models that have been developed.
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Brus, Wlodzimierz was born on August 23, 1921 in Plock, Poland. Son of Abram and Helena (Askanas) Zylberberg.
Master of Arts in Economic Planning, Planning Institute, SARATOV, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1942. Doctor of Philosophy in Political Economy, Main School of Planning and Statistics, Warsaw, 1951.
Assistant Professor, of Political Economics, Central School of Planning, Warsaw 1949-1952, Extraordinary Professor 1952-1954. Extraordinary Professor, University of Warsaw 1954-1965, Ordinary Professor 1965-1968, Dean Faculty of Economics 1958-1960. Director Research Bureau, Planning Commission, of Poland 1956-1958.
Vice-Chairman Economics Council 1957-1963. Research Worker, Institute of Housing, Warsaw (after dismissal from university) 1968-1972. Visiting Professor University of Rome 1971, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium 1973, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Glasgow 1972-1973, Senior Research Fellow, St. Antony’s College, Oxford 1973-1976.
Official Fellow Wolfson College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in Modem Russian and East European Studies, Oxford University 1976, Professor 1985-1988, Emeritus Professor since 1988. Ford Foundation Fellow 1961. Senior Fellow, Harriman Institute for Advanced Studies of USSR Columbia University, New York, 1982.
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Centre 1983. Isaac Deutscher Memorial.
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Author: General Problems of Functioning of the Socialist Economy, 1961, Socialist Ownership and Political Systems, 1975, Economic History of Eastern Europe, 1983. Co-author: From Marx to the Market, 1989.
Active member Polish United Workers' Party, Warsaw, 1948-1967.
Walking, swimming.
Married Irena Stergien, April 15, 1945 (divorced June 1955). Children: Helena, Janina. Married Helena Wolinska-Brus, May 5, 1956.
1 child, Tomek.