Although the Soviet Union has the most abundant energy reserves of any country, energy policy has been the single most disruptive factor in its industry since the mid-1970s. This major case study treats the paradox of the energy crisis as an essential part of larger economic problems of the...

Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika is a historic effort at restructuring the troubled Soviet economy. Wide-ranging in scope, harnessed with cultural and political reforms, it raises intriguing and important questions: Are Gorbachev's ideas different from the Kosygin-Brezhnev reform of 1965 that...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- I. NATIONAL INCOME / Bergson, Abram -- II. LABOR FORCE / Eason, Warren W. -- III. CAPITAL STOCK / Kaplan, Norman M. -- IV. INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION / Powell, Raymond P. -- V. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION / Johnson, D. Gale --...

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- MAP, CHARTS, AND TABLES -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part One. PRODUCTION AND INVESTMENT -- Production -- The Cost-Price Structure and Subsidization -- The Rate of Investment -- Part Two. PROBLEMS OF SPECIALIZATION AND SCALE -- The Scale of...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- FOREWORD / BERGSON, ABRAM -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: THEORY -- Chapter 1. TAXATION AND DIRECT ECONOMIC CONTROLS -- Chapter 2. TAXATION, INFLATION, AND THE FINANCIAL PLAN -- Chapter 3. ALTERNATIVE METHODS OF TAXATION -- Chapter 4. THE...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- MAP -- CHARTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. THE LOCATIONAL FRAMEWORK -- 1. The Soviet Geographic Setting in Historical Perspective -- 2. Soviet Locational Objectives and Problems -- PART II. RAILROADS AND OTHER CARRIERS IN ACTION -- 3. Industrialization and...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- Tables. Figures -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. PLANNING AND POLICY -- 2. SOVIET PLANNING REFORMS -- 3. TOWARD A NEW GROWTH MODEL -- 4. ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND PROFITS IN THE USSR -- PART TWO / LEVELS OF OUTPUT AND PRODUCTIVITY -- 5. THE...