The Failure of Soviet Economic Planning : System, Performance, Reform /

Although the Soviet Union's centrally planned economic system played a significant role in world economic growth and modernization, it ultimately failed to compete with market forms of economic organization. Despite unavailing efforts at reform, it has now been abandoned, as the republics of th...

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Main Author: Campbell, Robert W. (Robert Wellington), 1926-2015 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1992]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Theory of Economic Systems. I. On the Theory of Economic Administration. II. Macroeconomic Models and Central Price Setting in the Soviet Economy. III. The Stalinist Approach to Economic Development
  • II. Studies of Decision Making and Performance. IV. Energy Prices and Decisions on Energy Use in the USSR. V. Problems of Technical Progress in the USSR. VI. Management Spillovers from Soviet Space and Military Programs. VII. Management of Water Resources in the USSR: A Systems Problem
  • III. Institutional and Doctrinal Reform. VIII. Price, Rent, and Decision Making: The Economic Reform in Soviet Oil and Gas Production. IX. Marx, Kantorovich, and Novozhilov: Stoimost versus Reality.