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9789051702613

Interactions Between the Planner, Managers and Workers in Centrally Planned Economies

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  • ISBN13:

    9789051702613

  • ISBN10:

    9051702612

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1994-03-01
  • Publisher: Purdue Univ Pr
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Summary

The coordination of decision making has always been an important topic for politicians, business people, and scientists alike. The experiment in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to build a centrally planned economy provides an excellent example to study the possibilities and limitations of planned coordination. In this study, the author focuses on the interaction between several actors in a centrally planned economy, stressing the dominant position of the planner. An historical essay on the organization of production in the Soviet Union is combined with several theoretical insights. This forms the basis for the argument that the planner's reluctance to take the preferences and the strategies of others in society are essential explaining why the socialist experiment failed.

Author Biography

Joop de Kort teaches economics at the Hanse Polytechnic in Groningen.

Table of Contents

Introductionp. 1
The Case for Central Planningp. 11
A Planned Economy: The Example of the Soviet Unionp. 35
The Planner Versus the Managersp. 79
The Planner Versus the Workersp. 117
A Centrally Planned Economy with Three Actorsp. 161
Bibliographyp. 181
Samenvattingp. 197
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