PERESTROIKA AND RUBLE CONVERTIBILITY

This paper examines the role of money in market and centrally planned economies. It then proposes a program and sequence of institutional, macroeconomic and monetary reform aimed at achieving a stable transition. An egalitarian redistribution of the state's custodial assets to its citizens is viewed as an necessary prelude to the introdcution of market reforms if the transition process is to achive the goals of efficiency and equity. The paper is to be published in the Cato Journal, Vol. 10 No. 3, Winter, 1991