Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PART I. SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ECONOMIC OPTIMUM -- 1. A REFORMULATION OF CERTAIN ASPECTS OF WELFARE ECONOMICS -- 2. COLLECTIVE DECISIΟΝ-ΜΑΚIΝG AND SOCIAL WELFARE -- 3. ON SOCIAL WELFARE ONCE MORE ADDENDUM: CONSUMERS' SOVEREIGNTY AND "REAL" INCOME...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- Tables. Figures -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. PLANNING AND POLICY -- 2. SOVIET PLANNING REFORMS -- 3. TOWARD A NEW GROWTH MODEL -- 4. ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND PROFITS IN THE USSR -- PART TWO / LEVELS OF OUTPUT AND PRODUCTIVITY -- 5. THE...

Applies a novel methodology of national income calculation that has been applied to numerous Western countries, to the Soviet Union, involving the calculation of national income as the end product of a series of interrelated sector and global accounts of incomes and their disposition

With the recent completion of calculations for 1990, the multilateral program for compiling comparative GDP estimates that was initiated in the 1970s has now been extended to the USSR, and provides a fresh perspective on the dimensions of that country's economy. This essay assesses summarily the...

This essay appraises the scholarly findings on the level of consumption and output in the USSR, compared with that in the West. Such aggregative calculations are onerous for any country, and not very surprisingly have encountered particular difficulty where such a strange society as Soviet...