1st Edition

The Communist Foreign Trade System The Other Common Market

By Frederic L. Pryor Copyright 1963
298 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1963 but with lasting historical interest, this book was based on extensive research including many personal interviews with foreign trade officials and economists in communist East Berlin. It surveys the extent of economic integration between the European communist nations during the middle of the 20 th century and pays particular attention to the problems of economic... Read more

Part 1: Survey 1. The Role of Foreign Trade 2. Problems of Planning and Organization 3. Reforms in the Foreign Trade System 4. Criteria for Decision-Making Part 2: International Aspects 5. The Price Setting Process 6. The Choice of Trade Partners Part 3: The System as a Whole 7. Mechanisms in Intra-Bloc Foreign Trade 8. The Future of Communist Trade. Appendix and Statistical Appendix.

Biography

Frederic L. Pryor (1933–2019)

Original Reviews of The Communist Foreign Trade System:

‘Dr. Pryor has written the most useful and comprehensive book of the post-war period on the  foreign trade system of the Communist nations…’ Franklyn D. Holzman, The Slavic Review, Vol 23, No. 2 (1964)

‘What the book actually sets out to do, it does very competently…’ Political Science Quarterly, Vol 80, Issue 4 (1965).