Economic Devolution in Eastern EuropeAnalysis of problems arising from the gradual abandonment of original communist economic theory and from recent reform of economic administration and economic planning within the framework of the collective economy of socialist countries of Eastern Europe - covers decentralization of administration, consumption, production, profits, price determination, inflation, trade, unemployment, disguised unemployment, etc. Bibliography pp. 159 to 165, and statistical tables. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Planning for Utopia | 7 |
The Root Causes of the East European Crisis | 26 |
Chto Delat? What is to be Done? | 40 |
Prices as criteria? | 51 |
Problems of Market Pricing | 66 |
Planning and the Market | 87 |
Planning government revenue and expenditure | 95 |
Foreign Trade | 103 |
Adjustment to the world market | 107 |
Dangers Looming Ahead | 116 |
Resistances and fears | 128 |
Conclusions | 134 |
East European Reforms and Western Malaise | 145 |
Select Bibliography | 159 |