THE SOVIET ECONOMY CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
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The Soviet Economy: Continuity and Change
edited by Morris Bornstein
The economic system of the Soviet Union is of vital interest not merely because the USSR is a world superpower but also because the Soviets offer their economic development strategy and system as a model to Third World nations seeking rapid development and social change.
This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of the evolution and operation of the Soviet economy, its external economic relations, and the challenges it faces in the next decade. The selections describe the nature and difficulties of Soviet economic planning and the wide range of legal and illegal unplanned activities in the Soviet economy today. They examine also the involvement of citizens as both producers and consumers. The closing section looks at prospects for the future in the areas of agriculture, energy, and technological development.
Dr. Bornstcin is professor of economics at the University of Michigan and a former director of its Center for Russian and East European Studies. He has been a consultant to government agencies and foundations and has served on the executive committees of the Council for European Studies and the Association for Comparative Economic Studies and on the American Council of Learned Societies-Social Science Research Council Joint Committee on Eastern Europe. His publications include Plan and Market (1973), Economic Planning, East and West (1975), Comparative Economic Systems (4th edition, 1979), East-West Relations and the Future of Eastern Europe (1981), and many articles in economic journals and chapters in collective volumes.
The Soviet Economy
Continuity and Change
Edited By Morris Bornstein
First published 1981 by Westview Press, Inc.
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The Soviet economy: continuity and change
Includes index.
1. RussiaEconomic conditions1976 Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Russia
Economic policy1976 Addresses, essays, lectures.
I. Bornstein, Morris, 1927
HC336.25.S682 330.947'0853 80-21159
ISBN 13: 978-0-367-29598-1 (hbk)
Contents
, Morris Bomstein
, R. W. Davies
, RaymondP. Powell
, Aron Katsenelinboigen and Herbert S. Levine
, Gregory Grossman
, Morris Bomstein
, David E. Powell
, Gail W. Lapidus
, DavidE. Powell
, M. Elizabeth Denton
, Morris Bomstein
, Morris Bomstein
, Lawrence J. Brainard
, Hertha W. Heiss, Allen J. Lenz, and Jack Brougher
, Orah Cooper and Carol Fogarty
, Morris Bomstein
, James R. Millar
, Joseph S. Berliner
, Leslie Dienes
, Holland Hunter
For several reasons the institutions, policies, accomplishments, and problems of the Soviet economy are important and interesting to a wide audience of policymakers, business executives, scholars, students, and citizens. First, the USSR is a political, military, and economic superpower. Second, the USSR created a distinctive economic systemnow commonly called a socialist, centrally planned economythat subsequently was adopted, with modifications, by other countries in Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Finally, the USSR offers its economic system and economic-development strategy as a model to Third World nations seeking rapid economic development and social change.
This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of the evolution and operation of the Soviet economy, its external economic relations with major world areas, and the challenges it faces in the next decade. considers some of the most serious economic problems of the USSR in the 1980s, including agriculture, technology, and energy, and possible actions the Soviet regime might take to deal with these problems.
I wish to thank the publishers and authors of copyrighted material who granted permission to reprint. I am grateful to my wife, Reva, for her encouragement and forbearance during the preparation of the book.
Morris Bornstein
Morris Bornstein is professor of economics at the University of Michigan and a former director of its Center for Russian and East European Studies. He has been a consultant to government agencies and foundations and has served on the executive committees of the Council for European Studies and the Association for Comparative Economic Studies and on the American Council of Learned Societies-Social Science Research Council Joint Committee on Eastern Europe. His publications include Comparative Economic Systems, 4th edition, 1979; Plan and Market, 1973; Economic Planning, East and West, 1975, Chinese translation, 1980; East-West Relations and the Future of Eastern Europe, 1981; and many articles in economic journals and chapters in collective volumes.
