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..".a fascinating and stimulating mixture of theoretical and empirical material on the Soviet-type economy."--"International Affairs"
List of contents
Chapter 1 Leon Trotsky on the Dialectics of Democratic Control, Richard B. Day; Chapter 2 Soviet Investment Criteria: A Prefatory Note, Peter Wiles; Chapter 3 The Allocation of Investment in the Soviet Union: Criteria for the Efficiency of Investment, Janice Giffen; Chapter 4 The Soviet 1969 Standard Methodology for Investment Allocation versus ‘Universally Correct’ Methods, Frank A. Durgin; Chapter 5 Intra-year Fluctuations in Production and Sales: East and West, J. Rostowski, P. Auerbach; Chapter 6 Assessing the CIA's ‘Soviet Economic Indices’, Lev Navrozov; Chapter 7 Navrozov versus the Agency, Philip Hanson; Chapter 8 A Tonsorial View of the Soviet Second Economy, Gregory Grossman; Chapter 9 Soviet Agriculture: A Brighter Prospect?, Karl-Eugen Wädekin; Chapter 10 Economic Policies under Andropov and Chernenko (November 1982-February 1984-March 1985), Peter Wiles;
About the author
Peter Wiles London School of Economics and Political Science
Summary
First Published in 1988. This is a collection of essays in honor of Alec Nove and covers such topics as Leon Trotsky, Navrozov, Soviet Investment criteria, Soviet Agricultural, and economic politics under Andropov and Chernenko.
