Inside the East European Planned Economy: State Planning, Factory and Manager

ISBN-13: 9781138068681 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 186 str.

Voicu Ion Sucala

Opis

This book demonstrates how economic practice in the communist countries of Eastern Europe was shaped by interplay among planners, managers and Party apparatchiks. The book argues that shortages, chronic over-capacities and erroneous planning decisions were the natural outcome of attempts to adapt the basic laws of economics to ideology.

 

Spis treści

1. Introduction, 2. Organisation, power and politics in the communist regime, 3. Romanian industrialisation: legal frame, characteristics and social consequences, 4. Methodology, 5. Plan and enterprise in communist Romania, 6. The human side of the communist enterprise 7. Conclusions

O autorze

Voicu Ion Sucală is a Senior Lecturer in Engineering Management at the University of Exeter.