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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2011.
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| Colección: | Routledge revivals.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.