This paper reports about experimental calculations of basic types of prices in Czechoslovakia. The calculated prices based on the Input- Output model of the economy were 1)Cost prices, 2)Labor-value prices, 3)Production prices, 4) Income prices. The paper contains theoretical formulation of the...

This paper presents the econometric model of the Soviet economy that was built at the Osteuropa Institut in Munich. In the core of the model is the adaptive planning equation. Other equations are presented and discussed as well. The model is tested by ex post forcast and then some policy...

For some time Marxist economists believed that central planning as applied in the Soviet-type economies could prevent cyclical fluctuation. This view, however changed, when in 1960’s it became quite obvious, that some type of cycle is generated in centrally planned economies as well. Because...

This paper attempts estimation of the model of the Soviet price determination. Model consists of price equations for five sectors of the Soviet economy, and it is intended to be a part of a larger econometric model of the Soviet economy. Four different cost-plus price formulae were estimated....

During the 1960s most of the countries of Eastern Europe experienced a visible retardation of economic growth. This paper supports the view of many Eastern as well as Western economists that the retardation was caused primarily by declining rates of growth of the total factor productivity. The...

This paper was presented at the Belgrade conference for one hundred years anniversary of 'Das Kapital'. Marx himself said very little about the concrete organization of a socialist economy. His general remarks about socialism were 'elaborated' by his followers by inference from Marx's criticism...

This paper presents estimates of the macroeconomic consumption function for a Soviet type economy. Systemic differences, however, require that two relations instead of the usual single behavioral relation be estimated. The first relation, which we call the 'planners' consumption function',...

Input-Output models of various types of prices. Prices are derived as characteristic vectors of certain kinds of matrices and price parameters as their characteristic roots. The most general are the three-channel prices that are characteristic vectors of the linear combination of matrices of the...

This is in support of the governement program of transformation from the Soviet-type economy, to the free market economy in Czechoslovakia after the fall of Communism. The basic lines of the government program, that was outlined by Vaclav Klaus, are defended against the leftis criticism that...

This essay originated from the discussions of the role of central plan in an economic system with a functioning market mechanism. Such discussions emerged because of the implementation of the 'New Economic System'in Czechoslovakia. Under the old system, the role of the plan was considered clear...