Title Inside the East European planned economy : state planning, factory and manager / Voicu Ion Sucală

Edition First edition Published New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Series BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 122 BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 122. Contents Introduction -- Organisation, power and politics in the communist regime -- Romanian industrialisation : legal frame, characteristics and social consequences -- Methodology -- Plan and enterprise in communist Romania -- The human side of the communist enterprise -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1. List of archival documents -- Appendix 2. List of participants -- Index Summary "This book puts forward a new perspective on the planned economies of communist Eastern Europe, demonstrating in detail how economic practice in such countries was shaped by the interplay among planners, managers and Party apparatchiks. Based on extensive original research, including interviews with former employees of industrial?enterprises, the book argues that shortages, chronic over-capacities and erroneous planning decisions were present from the very beginning, rather than the consequences of later plan mistakes. They were the natural outcome of a profound conflict between leaders' attempt to adapt the basic laws of economics to their ideology and interests, and the requirements for rational bureaucracy of an increasingly sophisticated economy. The book discusses the evolution of and debates about the planned economy, considers the practice of plan development and implementation, and provides very detailed examples of how the planned economy actually worked at the level of the factory, at the point where plans and managers interacted with workers and production."--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Industrial management -- Romania BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference. Economic policy Industrial management Politics and government SUBJECT Romania -- Economic policy -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85114992 Romania -- Politics and government -- 1944-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115023 Subject Romania Form Electronic book ISBN 9781315157689 1315157683 9781351654364 1351654365 9781351654371 1351654373 9781351654357 1351654357

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