Jean-Charles Asselain

Planning and Profits in Socialist Economies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study of economic reforms throughout Eastern Europe covers the history of attempts at decentralization. The book: * Describes the centralized model and compares its requirements with the realities of socialist countries * Discusses the economic policies of the post-Stalinist period * Examines the origin of the reforms which began in 1956, culminating in the Soviet economic reform of 1965 and the rehabilitation of profit. Countries covered include the former USSR, the former East Germany and Hungary.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780415866460
• ISBN-10: 0415866464
• Artikelnr.: 37329122

Autorenporträt

Jean-Charles Asselain, Jill Rubery, John Andrew Wilson

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Ed Hewatt Introduction Part I 1. The Fundamental Elements of
the Centralized Model The System of Directives The Incentive System 2. From
the requirements of the model to the realities of socialist countries The
Freedom of the Enterprise and the aims of the intermediate supervisory
bodies Planning versus 'spontaneous processes' Part II Introduction to Part
II 3. Quasi-Cyclical Changes The swings in economic policies Decentralising
reforms and the processes of recentralisation 4. The basic trends The
proliferation of priorities and increased rigidities The increase in the
fundamental imbalances The appearance of new distinctions Part III The
reforms and their aftermath 5. Limited or fundamental reform? The common
ground The main differences and the distinguishing features of the two main
types of reform 6. The USSR and East Germany: the remains of the reforms
The lessons of the Soviet Reform The lessons of the East German Reform The
evolution of the economic policies and the overall performance of the
Soviet and East German economies 7. Hungary: the reform that survived The
setting up of the reform 1968-73: 'golden age' of the reform? The NEM on
trial Conclusion: decentralized socialism, profits and competition