The Failure of Soviet Economic Planning: System, Performance, Reform

By Robert Wellington Campbell

..". thoughtful and insightful essays... " --Economics of Transition "This book represents a distinguished collection. Specialists will be pleased to have it on their shelves." --Irish Slavonic Studies Republics of the former USSR are moving painfully toward a market economy, after their centrally planned economic system collapsed. Robert Campbell, respected specialist on the economy of the former Soviet Union, probes the evolution, behavior, and fatal weaknesses of the Soviet planned economy. His book is an indispensable resource for understanding what the Soviet economic system was and why it failed.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253313112
• ISBN13: 9780253313119
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.5" x 6.3"