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....