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An account of how black markets in the Soviet Union are being transformed into the driving force of economic reform. The author examines daily life in the Soviet bloc, arguing that almost every transaction - from housing and education to the health service - involves the black market.
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• The challenge of perestroika: transition to intensive development
• strengthening social provision
• radical reform of management
• more cooperatives and self-employment
• glasnost, democracy and self-management
• the first steps
• will it happen?
• on the eve - the lessons of history
• efficiency as the driving force of perestroika
• the challenge of technological breakthrough
• new investment policy
• the radical reform of management
• plan and market
• an open economy
• the enterprise - incentives for self-development
• perestroika for people
• glasnost, democracy, self-management as the dynamo of perestroika
• can the Soviet economy sustain a new round of the arms race?
• in place of a conclusion - the Soviet economy in the 21st century. Appendix 1 Use of dynamic inter-branch models to study the future growth of the Soviet economy. Appendix 2 Mathematical economic research into the problem of combining centralisation in the development of the national economic system with independence of its separate productive units.
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Abel Aganbegyan, once Gorbachev's closest economic advisor, looks at the far-reaching effects of reconstruction on the Soviet economy.
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• Overview / Alec Nove
• Population and labor force / Warren W. Eason
• Growth and productivity / I.S. Koropeckyj
• Regional living standards / Gertrude E. Schroeder
• The growth and structure of fixed capital in union republics / James W. Gillula
• The European USSR / F.E. Ian Hamilton-- The asiatic RSFSR / F. Douglas Whitehouse and David S. Kamerling
• Ukraine / Ihor Gordijew and I.S. Koropeckyj
• Moldavia / Ihor Gordijew
• Belorussia and Baltics / Juris Dreifelds
• Transcaucasus / Oleg Zinam
• Central Asia and Kazakstan / Ian M. Matley.