ABSTRACT
First published in 1986, this text brings together a selection of papers written by the great Alec Nove on development economics, Marxist economies, the Soviet economy, and law and politics in the Soviet Union. Reflecting the varied and diverse interests of its distinguished author, the topics range from Soviet constitutional law, to Trotsky’s view of collectivization; from a critique of conventional micro-economics, to the economic disaster of the Allende regime in Chile.
The author’s long-standing immersion in the past and present of the Soviet Union helps to provide the unique insights into the workings of Socialist economies characteristic of Professor Nove’s previous work. This volume should be essential reading for anyone interested in development economics, socialist economies, or the problems facing contemporary Soviet economic reformers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |47 pages
Development
chapter |27 pages
The Political Economy of the Allende Regime
chapter |9 pages
The Explosive Model
part |79 pages
Problems of Marxist and Soviet Economics
chapter |12 pages
Marx, the Market and ‘Feasible Socialism'
chapter |25 pages
The Economy of the Ussr and Marxism: What Socialist Model?
chapter |16 pages
Trotsky, Collectivization and the Five-Year Plan
chapter |24 pages
Soviet Economics and Soviet Economists: Some Random Observations
part |62 pages
The Contemporary Soviety Economy
chapter |19 pages
The Soviet Economy: Problems and Prospects
chapter |19 pages
Soviet Agriculture in the 1980s
chapter |11 pages
The Soviet Industrial Enterprise
chapter |11 pages
The Economic Problems of Brezhnev's Successors
part |48 pages
Politics and Law