The Logic of Planned Economy: The Seeds of the Collapse

by Kevin Cook and Pawel H. Dembinski

This timely book examines and seeks to explain the inner contradictions of centrally planned economies and shows how the seeds of their collapse had existed within the system from the very start. The author shows how the orthodox ideological principles of the system rendered it inflexible and incapable of reform and thus unable to transform itself into an efficient modern economy. Though the system as such has ceased to exist, it is as yet only the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198286864
• ISBN13: 9780198286868
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"