Restructuring the Soviet economy / / David A. Dyker

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450048603321
• Autore: Dyker David A.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992
• ISBN: 1-134-91746-5; 1-280-19908-3; 0-203-31402-6; 0-203-05417-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.947/009/049; 338.94700904
• Soggetti: Central planning; Perestroi?ka; Central planning - Soviet Union; Perestroĭka; Electronic books.; Soviet Union Economic policy 1986-1991
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [212]-223) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; The historical origins of the Soviet planning system; Centralization and the command principle; The theory and practice of resource mobilization; The command principle and the work-force; Conclusion; Soviet planning in practice; The Micawber principle; Ratchet and Micawber and managerial behaviour; The classical Stalinist planning system in historical perspective; The slow-down; The reforms of the 1960's and 1970's and why they failed; The 1965 planning reform; The 1965 planning reform in retrospect; Going through the motions: the Brezhnev ascendancy The 1979 'mini-reform'; Gorbachev's perestroika programme; Gorbachev in command; The foreign trade reforms of 1986 7; Restructuring the CMEA; The pace quickens; Perestroika and the planning system; The special problem of agriculture; Strategy and stagnation 1964 32; Intra-farm ; centralization and decentralization; Gorbachev and Chernenko; The evolution of administrative structure 1985 6; The price of decentralization; Private agriculture: another road; The conceptual breakthrough; The new legislative framework of 1989; The new policy blockage of the 1990's From blockage to blueprint; The special problem of construction and investment; 'The more costly, the better'; The construction industry and the pattern of the traditional Soviet planning system; Investment planning and investment pay-offs; the pre-perestroika record; Gorbachev's reconstruction of the investment planning system; Investment policy 1985 90: acceleration versus reconstruction; An interim conclusion; Perestroika in crisis; Anatomy of a policy failure; The price of budget deficit; The price of external deficit; The price of democratization; What is to be done? Conclusion: can the Soviet Union do it alone?; Postscript; Glossary; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Restructuring the Soviet Economy examines the Soviet leadership's most urgent question - how to revitalize the soviet economy. David Dyker argues that the current impasse can can only be understood in the context of the failure of 60 years of central planning. He analyses both the problems besetting the centrally planned system and those that have paralysed perestroika and assesses whether the most ambitious attempt ever to reform the Soviet economy will succeed.