The Prediction of Communist Economic Performance [Paperback]

This study represents attempts dating from 1967, by nine experts on Communist economics, to forecast the performance of individual Communist countries.This study represents attempts dating from 1967, by nine experts on Communist economics, to forecast the performance of individual Communist countries. These predictions provide a great deal of comparable information and make experimental use of elementary econometrical techniques, which have rarely been applied to these countries before.This study represents attempts dating from 1967, by nine experts on Communist economics, to forecast the performance of individual Communist countries. These predictions provide a great deal of comparable information and make experimental use of elementary econometrical techniques, which have rarely been applied to these countries before.This study represents attempts dating from 1967, by nine experts on Communist economics, to forecast the performance of individual Communist countries. These predictions provide a great deal of comparable information and make experimental use of elementary econometrical techniques, which have rarely been applied to these countries before. The book also contains, as a unique feature, criticism and self-criticism of the predictions of 1967 (here reproduced unchanged) in the light of subsequent events. A most valuable by-product is the analytical comparison of planning procedures and of agricultural ownership, country by country, so that the differing progress of the reforms can be easily grasped.1. Introduction, Peter Wiles, 1970; 2. The planning of industry: comparative analysis, ed. Peter Wiles, 1969; 3. Ownership and planning in Soviet and East European agriculture, Everett M. Jacobs, 1969; 4. General note on projections for Albania and Rumania, Michael Kaser, 1967; 5. Albania, Michael Kaser, 1967; 6. Albania: afterthoughts, Michael Kaser, 1969; 7. Bulgaria, Alexej Wynnyczuk, 1968; 8. China, W. Klatt, 1967; 9. China one year later, Peter Wiles, 1968lÓ)