| Description |
xv, 441 pages : graphs ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Part I. Indicators, types and models for comparison -- Indicators of socio-politico-economic development / Paul S. Shoup -- A classification of Communist economic systems / John M. Montias -- Towards an empirical typology of socialist systems / William A. Welsh -- A continuum model for global comparison / Carmelo Mesa-Lago -- Part II. Politics -- Patterns and problems of governance / Carl Beck -- Revolution and modernization in economic organizations / William N. Dunn -- The pattern and method of liberalization / Andrzej Korbonski -- Bureaucracy and party control / Paul Cocks -- Political development and political change / Jan F. Triska and Paul M. Johnson -- Techonlogy and Communist culture : Dimensions of cultural diffusion / Frederic J. Fleron, Jr. -- Part III. Economics -- Testing the realism of plans Stanislaw Gomulka and Peter J.F. Wiles -- Property rights / Richard Carson -- Industrial organization / Frederic L. Pryor -- Foreign trade Paul Marer -- Cybernetics, automation and the transition to Communism / Jozef Wilczynski -- Comparing Socialist systems : Ends and results / Paul Hollander |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Communist state.
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| SUBJECT |
Communist countries -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114748
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Communist countries. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029173
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| Author |
Beck, Carl, 1930-1979.
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Mesa-Lago, Carmelo, 1934-
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| LC no. |
75331585 |
| ISBN |
0916002012 |
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