Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Vladimir Mau
Author-Name-First: Vladimir
Author-Name-Last: Mau
Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy
Title: Central Planning in the Soviet System 
Abstract:It was always maintained by Soviet theorists that the distinguishing feature of the Soviet socialist or Communist economy would be centralized economic planning. This was their sine qua non and all discussions over the Soviet economic model revolved around two questions: what should be the nature of economic planning and how was an effective centrally planned economy to be constructed? These were two sides of the same problem but historically solutions were sought along different lines of enquiry
Length: 5195 words
Creation-Date:  2011
Revision-Date:   2012
File-URL: https://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/wpaper/0031Mau.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: Revised version, 2012
Keywords: central planning system, USSR
Handle: RePEc:gai:wpaper:0031