Economic Welfare and the Economics of Soviet Socialism

Part I. Soviet socialism: 1. Knowledge and socialism: deciphering the Soviet experience Steven Rosefielde; 2. Economic growth and structural change in czarist Russia and the Soviet Union: a long-term comparison Paul R. Gregory; 3. Corruption in a Soviet-type economy: theoretical considerations J. M. Montias and Susan Rose-Ackerman; 4. Soviet use of fixed prices: hypothesis of a job-right constraint David Granick; 5. Technological progress and the evolution of Soviet pricing policy Joseph S. Berliner; 6. Earning differentials by sex in the Soviet Union: a first look Gur Ofer and Aaron Vinokur; 7. Creditworthiness and balance-of-payments adjustment mechanisms of centrally planned economies Franklyn D. Holzman; 8. Comparative advantage and the evolving pattern of Soviet international commodity specialization, 1950–1973 Steven Rosefielde; Part II. Economic welfare: 9. Bergsonian welfare economics Paul A. Samuelson; 10. Optimal and voluntary income distribution Kenneth J. Arrow; 11. A note on production structure and aggregate growth Simon Kuznets; 12. Optimal education, occupation, and income distribution in a simplist model Jan Tinbergen; 13. The welfare economics of product quality under socialism Martin Spechler.