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Tracking Economic Change with Ambiguous Tools: Soviet Planning, 1928–1991

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Holland Hunter
Holland Hunter
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Professor Emeritus, Haverford College.
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Abstract

The articles by Harrison and Allen that follow deal with a major episode in economic history, one that offers both rich empirical evidence and challenging theoretic problems. It is now possible to conduct an economic post mortem on seven turbulent decades in the experience of the very large economy that made up the Soviet Union, and these articles examine some key operational issues lying at the heart of that experience. Readers will find the best introduction to these issues in Paul Gregory's masterly monograph, Before Command. My task here is limited to identifying the context for the intellectual action on the stage.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 58 , Issue 4 , December 1998 , pp. 1027 - 1031
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1998

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