This note builds upon research by Estrin and Uvalić that shows that the labor-managed firm (LMF) in the Yugoslav economy was much closer to the enterprise in Soviet-type economies than has usually been believed. It attempts to characterize concisely the Yugoslav enterprise, underline the...

Modern commercial sectors create backward linkages that encourage quality and cost effective production, while financial institutions create forward linkages that help to impose efficient governance structures throughout the economy. The latter are also crucial for FDI in other branches of the...

This paper reviews the economic literature which deals with the tautness of plans and with its relevance to macroeconomic pressures in Soviet-type economies. It opens with a discussion of Kornai 's shortage economy, a systemic approach to pressure, which is an alternative to the plan-related...