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Economic welfare and the economics of Soviet socialism, essays in honor of Abram Bergson, edited by Steven Rosefielde

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Economic welfare and the economics of Soviet socialism

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edited by Steven Rosefielde

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essays in honor of Abram Bergson

This book is a collection of essays written in honor of Abram Bergson, the father of modern Soviet economic studies and modern welfare economics. The first part deals with Soviet economics, whereas the second part is devoted to welfare economics and includes essays by four Nobel laureates, Samuelson, Arrow, Tinbemen and Kuznets. All of the essays in the book are important contributions in their own right.--, Provided by publisher

Knowledge and socialism / Steven Rosefielde -- Economic growth and structural change in czarist Russia and the Soviet Union / Paul R. Gregory -- Corruption in a Soviet-type economy / John M. Montias and Susan Rose-Ackerman -- Soviet use of fixed prices / David Granick -- Technological progress and the evolution of Soviet pricing policy / Joseph Berliner -- Earnings differentials by sex in the Soviet Union / Gur Ofer and Aaron Vinokur -- Creditworthiness and balance-of-payments adjustment mechanisms of centrally planned economies / Franklyn D. Holzman -- Comparative advantage and the evolving pattern of Soviet international commodity specialization, 1950-1973 / Steven Rosenfielde -- Bergsonian welfare economics / Paul A. Samuelson -- Optimal and voluntary income distribution / Kenneth J. Arrow -- A note on production structure and aggregate growth / Simon Kuznets -- Optimal education, occupation, and income distribution in a simplist model / Jan Tinbergen -- The welfare economics of product quality under socialism

Economic Welfare & the Economics of Soviet Socialism