The Soviet Economy (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1961, The Soviet Economy is a well informed work which seeks to acquaint students with the structure and problems of the economy of the USSR. In a balanced and perceptive analysis, Alexander Nove describes the organisation of economic life and of the planning system, analysing the practical and theoretical problems within the institutional structure of the Soviet system, and introducing the student to Soviet economic ideas and concepts. The subject is then related to the growth of the Soviet economy and to the extent to which both the institutions and the problems reflect th

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Nove, Alec
Publisher:	Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
Subject:	Sowjetunion \| USSR \| Wirtschaftspolitik \| Economic policy \| Zentrale Wirtschaftsplanung \| Central planning \| Wirtschaftsreform \| Economic reform

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (329 p)
Series:	Routledge Revivals Routledge Revivals Ser.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Cover; Title; Copyright; PREFACE; Contents; GLOSSARY; Introduction: Why and how; PART I : STRUCTURE; 1 Productive enterprises; Categories of enterprises; The state industrial enterprise; Other state enterprises; Co-operative artisans; The collective farm (kolkhoz); The private sector; 2 Administration, planning, policy decision; Introduction: the nature of the task; VSNKh; The rise of the ministerial system; Planning agencies before 1957; The end of the ministerial system: the sovnarkhoz reform; Planning and administration after 1957: union level; republican level The planning process and material suppliesInvestment and construction planning; Agricultural planning; The planning of trade; Inspection and control organs; 3 Public finance and credit; The state budget; The financing of investment; Banking and credit; 4 Wages and prices; Principle of wage determination; Peasant incomes; Trade unions; The price system: wholesale prices; Retail prices; Agricultural prices; Structure: conclusion; PART II : PROBLEMS; 5 The changing nature of problems; 6 Micro-economic problems; 'Success indicators'; Innovation, risk-taking, initiative Transmission of demand to producersThe party and the correction of distortions; The special problems of agriculture; The special case of foreign trade; 7 Planning and investment; Complexities; Sovnarkhozy and 'regionalism'; Planning and material allocations; Planning by 'balances'; Investment criteria; 8 The pricing of factors of production; The contradictory objects of price policy; The search for an 'objective' basis of prices; Agricultural prices and land rent; Capital charges, interest and amortization; Wages: a de facto labour market; 9 Trends towards reform; Reform is in the air What is to be done?The Party's attitudes; The Czech and Polish models; Yugoslavia; PART III: CONCEPTS AND IDEAS; 10 Some basic concepts of Soviet economics; National income; Gross industrial output; Gross agricultural production; Other sectors; Gross social product; Producers' goods and consumers' goods; Accumulation fund and consumption fund; 11 Soviet economics and economic laws; The 'liquidationist' tradition; The post-Stalin revival of economics; The law of value: does it apply, and why; The real content of the law of value; Utility, scarcity, marginalism and linear programming Some other economic 'laws'12 Assessment; The Soviet economy and the economics of development; Can the system cope with a mature economy?; The efficiency of the system in competition with the West; A model for underdeveloped countries?; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF SUBJECTS; INDEX OF NAMES;
ISBN:	978-0-415-68246-6 ; 978-1-136-62906-8 ; 978-0-415-68246-6
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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