Restructuring the Soviet Economy

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of Figures and Tables......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
The historical origins of the Soviet planning system......Page 12
Centralization and the command principle......Page 17
The theory and practice of resource mobilization......Page 23
The command principle and the work-force......Page 31
Conclusion......Page 34
Soviet planning in practice......Page 35
The Micawber principle......Page 37
Ratchet and Micawber and managerial behaviour......Page 38
The classical Stalinist planning system in historical perspective......Page 41
The slow-down......Page 51
The reforms of the 1960s and 1970s and why they failed......Page 56
The 1965 planning reform......Page 59
The 1965 planning reform in retrospect......Page 65
Going through the motions: the Brezhnev ascendancy......Page 77
The 1979 'mini-reform'......Page 84
Gorbachev's perestroika programme......Page 90
Gorbachev in command......Page 94
The foreign trade reforms of 1986  7......Page 100
Restructuring the CMEA......Page 103
The pace quickens......Page 104
Perestroika and the planning system......Page 109
The special problem of agriculture......Page 114
Strategy and stagnation 1964  32......Page 115
Intra-farm centralization and decentralization......Page 121
Gorbachev and Chernenko......Page 124
The evolution of administrative structure 1985  6......Page 125
The price of decentralization......Page 129
Private agriculture: another road......Page 131
The conceptual breakthrough......Page 132
The new legislative framework of 1989......Page 133
The new policy blockage of the 1990s......Page 135
From blockage to blueprint......Page 137
The special problem of construction and investment......Page 140
'The more costly, the better'......Page 154
The construction industry and the pattern of the traditional Soviet planning system......Page 160
Investment planning and investment pay-offs;the pre-perestroika record......Page 163
Gorbachev's reconstruction of the investment planning system......Page 172
Investment policy 1985  90: acceleration versus reconstruction......Page 177
An interim conclusion......Page 181
Perestroika in crisis......Page 182
Anatomy of a policy failure......Page 187
The price of budget deficit......Page 191
The price of external deficit......Page 193
The price of democratization......Page 196
What is to be done?......Page 202
Conclusion: can the Soviet Union do it alone?......Page 215
Postscript......Page 217
Glossary......Page 221
References......Page 223
Index......Page 235