Prior to World War II, an often made observation on the Soviet economy was that its industrial development was crippled by the lack of trained factory labor. In the present decade, fear based on an opposite belief is frequently expressed: that Russia is surpassing the United States in the...

Deals with a study that argues that some social security programs represent investment rather than consumption, that choices among them can be economically rational rather than reflect political expediency, and that social security programs can promote rather than limit economic development....

In arguing the thesis that research in American labor history is presently being neglected, the author of this article deplores the tendency of many recent histories to concentrate on describing current events in a manner either partisan or lacking in true perspective. Suggestions are offered as...

This paper has a threefold purpose: (a) to examine the concepts employed by Russian statisticians in computing labor productivity; (b) to indicate the trend of labor productivity in Russian industry (including manufacturing and mining) since the inception of the five-year plans; and (c) through...