The Political Economy of a Soviet Military R and D Failure
Title | The Political Economy of a Soviet Military R and D Failure PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Harrison |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Economics |
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The Political Economy of a Soviet Military R and D Failure
Title | The Political Economy of a Soviet Military R and D Failure PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Harrison |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Economics |
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Political Economy of Soviet Military Power
Title | Political Economy of Soviet Military Power PDF eBook |
Author | Leo Cooper |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 1989-06-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1349104337 |
A study of the political economy of Soviet military power, examining Soviet Russian ideology and tradition, theory and practice of the military doctrine, the domestic aspect and new economic realism, technology and efficiency, and Perestroika and Glasnost from 1985-1987.
The Political Economy of Stalinism
Title | The Political Economy of Stalinism PDF eBook |
Author | Paul R. Gregory |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521533676 |
This book uses the formerly secret Soviet state and Communist Party archives to describe the creation and operations of the Soviet administrative command system. It concludes that the system failed not because of the 'jockey'(i.e. Stalin and later leaders) but because of the 'horse' (the economic system). Although Stalin was the system's prime architect, the system was managed by thousands of 'Stalins' in a nested dictatorship. The core values of the Bolshevik Party dictated the choice of the administrative command system, and the system dictated the political victory of a Stalin-like figure. This study pinpoints the reasons for the failure of the system - poor planning, unreliable supplies, the preferential treatment of indigenous enterprises, the lack of knowledge of planners, etc. - but also focuses on the basic principal-agent conflict between planners and producers, which created a sixty-year reform stalemate.
The Political Economy of Soviet Defence Spending
Title | The Political Economy of Soviet Defence Spending PDF eBook |
Author | R.T. Maddock |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1988-06-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1349082716 |
The Relative Efficiency of Military Research and Development in the Soviet Union
Title | The Relative Efficiency of Military Research and Development in the Soviet Union PDF eBook |
Author | Gur Ofer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Military research |
ISBN |
The Soviet military R&D sector benefits from a wide range of material, administrative, and other priorities, which impose heavy opportunity costs, expecially on civilian R&D. R&D is relatively more expensive in a command economy, so less of it should be used than in a market system. The Soviet use of much less R&D in its military sector is as rational as the American use of much more R&D where R&D is reltively less expensive. If less military R&D is used in the USSR, a measure of its efficiency derived as a ratio of military output to military R&D is biased upward. The relative efficiency of Soviet military R&D is probably much lower than otherwise assumed because input costs are higher and output lower than usually estimated. The arms race is costlier to the Soviet Union than otherwise believed, both absolutely and as an alternative to economic development.
The Political Economy of Soviet Military Power
Title | The Political Economy of Soviet Military Power PDF eBook |
Author | Leo Cooper |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 1989-01-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780312031084 |