1st Edition
Measuring National Income in the Centrally Planned Economies Why the West Underestimated the Transition to Capitalism
By William Jefferies
Copyright 2014
184 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
182 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
182 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In 1991 "Communism" collapsed. The cold war was over and the West had won. Whole cities, Moscow, St Petersburg, Warsaw, Beijing, Budapest and Bucharest, whole countries indeed, were privatised for nothing or next to nothing. This was probably the greatest expansion of the world market in history. And yet, according to national income measurements of the CIA, OECD, World Bank and IMF, this... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The Measurement of Soviet Economic Growth 3. From Capitalism and Back Again 4. Empirical Evidence 5. After the fall 6. Conclusion
Biography
William Jefferies has a PhD from Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
This is one of those rare books that changes the way we view the world by challenging the previous propositions that until now were taken as authoritative. -- Brian Green, Marx & Philosophy
