Problems of the Planned Economy

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PALGRAVE

PROBLEMS OF THE PLANNED ECONOMY

THE NEW

PALGRAVE

PROBLEMS OF THE PLANNED ECONOMY EDITED BY

JOHN EATWELL . MURRAYMILGATE . PETER NEWMAN

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MACMILLAN REFERENCE BOOKS

© The Macmillan Press Limited, 1987, 1990 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1990

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission. First published in

The New Pa/grave: A Dictionary 0/Economics

Edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman in four volumes, 1987 Published in the United Kingdom by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LIMITED, 1990 London and Basingstoke Associated companies in Auckland, Delhi, Dublin, Gaborone, Hamburg, Harare, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur, Lagos, Manzini, Maseru, Melbourne, Mexico City, Nairobi, New York, Singapore, Tokyo. The New Palgrave is a trademark of The Macmillan Press Limited British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data The New Palgrave: problems of the planned economy. 1. Planned economics I. Eatwell, John II. Milgate, Murray III. Newman, Peter 330. 12'4 ISBN 978-0-333-49549-0 ISBN 978-1-349-20863-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-20863-0

Sept 90

Contents

General Preface Preface Perestroika Socialist planning China's Economic Reforms Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin Central planning Colbertism Collective agriculture Command economy Control and coordination of economic activity Convergence hypothesis Corporatism Cycles in socialist economies East- West economic relations Economic calculation in socialist economies Fascism Grigorii Alexandrovic Fel'dman Investment planning Leonid Vitalievich Kantorovich Labour-managed economies Oskar Lange Lange- Lerner mechanism Vladimir I1yich Lenin Abba Ptachya Lerner Mao Zedong

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A. Aganbegyan Michael Ellman Peter Nolan Donald 1. Harris Tadeusz Kowalik D.C. Coleman Peter Nolan Gregory Grossman Bela Martos P.J.D. Wiles Joseph Halevi D.M. Nuti Marie Lavigne Michael Ellman Wolfgang-Dieter Classen Michael Ellman Joseph Halevi V. Makarov B. Horvat Tadeusz Kowalik Tadeusz Kowalik Meghnad Desai Tibor Scitovsky Peter Nolan

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Market socialism Material balances Vasily Sergeevich Nemchinov Viktor Valentinovich Novozhilov Planned economy Planning Evgenii Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky Prices and quantities Socialism Josif Vissarionovich Stalin Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin Lev Davidovich Trotsky Nikolai Alekseevich Voznesensky Contributors

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w. Brus Gregory Grossman M.e. Kaser Holland Hunter and Robert W. Campbell Alec Nove Rajiv Vohra Michael Ellman A. Brody Alec Nove Michael Ellman M.e. Kaser Richard B. Day M.e. Kaser

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General Preface

The books in this series are the offspring of The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics. Published in late 1987, the Dictionary has rapidly become a standard reference work in economics. However, its four heavy tomes containing over four million words on the whole range of eco