LEADER 04179oam 2200673I 450 001 9910450048603321 005 20210107012028.0 010 $a1-134-91746-5 010 $a1-280-19908-3 010 $a0-203-31402-6 010 $a0-203-05417-2 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203054178 035 $a(CKB)1000000000006865 035 $a(EBL)179857 035 $a(OCoLC)264487296 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000283664 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11266523 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000283664 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10249935 035 $a(PQKB)10036241 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC179857 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000006865 100 $a20180331d1992 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRestructuring the Soviet economy /$fDavid A. Dyker 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d1992. 215 $a1 online resource (242 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-43605-4 311 $a0-415-06761-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [212]-223) and index. 327 $aBook 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 327 $aGoing 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 327 $aThe 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 327 $aWhat is to be done? Conclusion: can the Soviet Union do it alone?; Postscript; Glossary; References; Index 330 $aRestructuring 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. 606 $aCentral planning 606 $aPerestroi?ka 606 $aCentral planning$zSoviet Union 606 $aPerestroi?ka 607 $aSoviet Union$xEconomic policy$y1986-1991 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aCentral planning. 615 4$aPerestroi?ka. 615 0$aCentral planning 615 0$aPerestroi?ka. 676 $a338.947/009/049 676 $a338.94700904 700 $aDyker$b David A.$0127238 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450048603321 996 $aRestructuring the soviet economy$9500379 997 $aUNINA