228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
215 Pages
by
Routledge
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Reflecting Professor Holzman's important work, this book deals with major issues relating to both East-West and intra-bloc trade. Professor Holzman explores the transition in Soviet bloc economies over the past fifteen years from balanced hard-currency trade to large deficits with the West and the consequent development of a huge hard-currency debt. He compares the causes and treatments of... Read more
Introduction -- Balance-of-Payments Problems and Adjustment Mechanisms -- Some Theories of the Hard Currency Shortages of Centrally Planned Economies -- Creditworthiness and Balance-of-Payments Adjustment Mechanisms of Centrally Planned Economies -- Commentary on Richard Portes' "Internal and External Balance in a Centrally Planned Economy" -- Foreign Trade Behavior and Commercial Policy -- A Comparative View of Foreign Trade Behavior: Market Versus Centrally Planned Economies -- Trade, Technology, and Leverage: The Limits of Pressure -- Dumping by Centrally Planned Economies: The Polish Golf Cart Case -- Commentary on Jacob Dreyer's "Countervailing Foreign Use of Monopoly Power" -- Convertibility and Exchange Rates -- CMEA's Hard Currency Deficits and Rouble Convertibility1 -- Intrabloc Trade -- Comecon: A "Trade-Destroying" Customs Union? -- The Significance of Soviet Subsidies to Eastern Europe -- Further Thoughts on the Significance of Soviet Subsidies to Eastern Europe
Biography
Franklyn D. Holzman is professor of economics at Tufts University and a research associate at the Russian Research Center, Harvard University.
