In a work with significant implications for present-day economic reform in the Soviet Union, Paul Gregory examines Russian and Soviet economic history prior to the installation of the administrative command system. By drawing on basic economic statistics from 1861 to the 1930s, Gregory's...

We investigate the connections between shot noise weighted and bivariate Gibbs point processes.

This paper introduces a three-dimensional object point process--the Bisous model--that can be used as a prior for three-dimensional spatial pattern analysis. Maximization of likelihood or penalized-likelihood functions based on this model requires global optimization techniques, such as the...

This paper examines the nature of the Soviet dictatorship – Stalin and the Politburo – in the 1930s using some of the propositions put forward by Abram Bergson and by other participants in the socialist controversy – Hayek, Mises, and other contributors. Four models of dictatorship are...