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This book is the first critical assessment of the likelihood and implications of such a contract. Linda Cook pursues the idea from Brezhnev's day to our own, and considers the constraining effect it may have had on Gorbachev's attempts to liberalize the Soviet economy.
The second edition of an innovative undergraduate textbook in Comparative Economic Systems that goes beyond the traditional dichotomies.
Study and compilation of statistical tables on economic development trends in the USSR for the years 1966 and 1967 - covers economic growth, industrial production, agricultural development, goods transport, capital investment, national budget, population, labour force, wages, education, consumption, trade, the role of USSR in providing economic aid, etc., and includes a chapter on growth in Eastern Europe. Bibliography pp. 165 to 194.
International interest in China is increasing. Not surprisingly, China-related news is hitting the headlines of leading international media. This is well grounded, given the fact that China is the largest developing country in the world with almost a quarter of the world's population. However, many reports on China are self-contradictory, which again reveals the complexities of a nation that has experienced dramatic change for over a century. For the outsider, it is virtually impossible to follow China's overriding trends of change without understanding its past and present. This book provides a chronological record of the major changes that have taken place in the Chinese economy over the past five decades.
Discusses the theory of labour-managed firms or producers' cooperatives, and of economies companies principally of such firms.