Preferences are converging, and consumer aspirations are increasing in poor as well as rich countries, including Eastern Europe where they were part of the reasons for 1989 together with popular aspirations for democracy. The unanimously proposed means are converging towards marketisation and...

The Baltic republics are intricately intertwined with the Soviet economy through trade, importing energy and raw materials, and through exporting products of light and food processing industries. They are among the most prosperous republics with trade deficits of 8-16% of NMP according to Soviet...

Revenue sharing, i.e. workers' remuneration according to enterprise performance, has been advocated as a means against labor shortage (in socialist economies) and also as a solution to unemployment problems (in capitalist economies), with reference to the effects of revenue sharing upon workers'...

In recent years small autonomous work teams have been increasingly revived as a means of iproving Soviet production efficiency. Empirical evidence suggests that decreasing the size of brigades for a given total workforce entails changes in remuneration and decision making: internal remuneration...