04179oam 2200673I 450 991045004860332120210107012028.01-134-91746-51-280-19908-30-203-31402-60-203-05417-210.4324/9780203054178 (CKB)1000000000006865(EBL)179857(OCoLC)264487296(SSID)ssj0000283664(PQKBManifestationID)11266523(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000283664(PQKBWorkID)10249935(PQKB)10036241(MiAaPQ)EBC179857(EXLCZ)99100000000000686520180331d1992 uy 0engtxtccrRestructuring the Soviet economy /David A. DykerLondon ;New York :Routledge,1992.1 online resource (242 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-138-43605-4 0-415-06761-8 Includes bibliographical references (pages [212]-223) and index.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 retrospectGoing 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 1989The 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 democratizationWhat is to be done? Conclusion: can the Soviet Union do it alone?; Postscript; Glossary; References; IndexRestructuring 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.Central planningPerestroi?kaCentral planningSoviet UnionPerestroĭkaSoviet UnionEconomic policy1986-1991Electronic books.Central planning.Perestroi?ka.Central planningPerestroĭka.338.947/009/049338.94700904Dyker David A.127238AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910450048603321Restructuring the soviet economy500379UNINA