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North Korea : the last transition economy?

Koen, Vincent; Beom, Jinwoan - 2020

The North Korean economy has been a statistical black hole for decades but is undergoing substantial transformations. Rapid post-war industrialisation was not sustained beyond the mid-1960s and South Korea’s economy far outpaced North Korea’s during the next three decades, during which trend...

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Measuring Defense Conversion in Russian Industry

Earle, John S.; Komarov, Ivan - 1999

This paper develops and implements a methodology for quantifying defense conversion in Russian manufacturing in the early 1990s. A two-sector, three-good model is employed to analyze the flows of resources from military to non-military uses and applied to firm-level survey data under alternative...

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Nine hundred years of higher education and innovation

Chernov, A. Iu. - In: Problems of economic transition 59 (2017) 7/9, pp. 680-686

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The Soviet Economy : The Late 1930s in Historical Perspective

Davies, R. W. - 2018

This paper is a draft of the concluding chapter of The industrialisation of Soviet Russia, vol. 7: The Soviet economy …

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Counter-Intelligence in a Command Economy

Harrison, Mark - 2013

We provide the first thick description of the KGB’s counter-intelligence function in the Soviet command economy. Based on documentation from Lithuania, the paper considers KGB goals and resources in relation to the supervision of science, industry, and transport; the screening of business...

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Forging Success : Soviet Managers and Accounting Fraud, 1943 to 1962

Harrison, Mark - 2012

Attempting to satisfy their political masters in a target-driven culture, Soviet managers had to optimize on many margins simultaneously. One of these was the margin of truthfulness. False accounting for the value of production was apparently widespread in some branches of the economy and at...

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How Much Control is Enough? Monitoring and Enforcement Under Stalin

Markevich, Andrei - 2010

The paper examines the control system that Stalin established, as the Soviet dictator, to enforce his orders. Historical records demonstrate that Stalin designed the system’s scope, organisation, and credentials to maximise its cost-effectiveness. On several occasions Stalin deliberately...

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Soviet Economic Reform

Kontorovich, Vladimir - 2006

Economics. Soviet economic reform refers to repeated failed attempts in the 1960s-1980s to introduce market … to use local information in executing commands while also attending to customers' demand. Reform arrangements, such as … reform can be explained, in the spirit of North (2005), by considering the rulers' beliefs about the economy …

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Central Planning in the Soviet System

Mau, Vladimir - 2012

It was always maintained by Soviet theorists that the distinguishing feature of the Soviet socialist or Communist economy would be centralized economic planning. This was their sine qua non and all discussions over the Soviet economic model revolved around two questions: what should be the...

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Market Equilibrium in a Model of a Planned Economy of the Soviet Type : A Proof of Existence and the Results of Numerical Simulations

Feltenstein, Andrew - 2006

We construct a one period model of an economy based upon a Soviet-type system, and examine a modified notion of equilibrium in it. Producers are not profit maximizers, but have quantitity oriented incentive functions. Taxes are part of the planning process without which there would not be an...

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