Part 1. The Origins and Operation of Central Planning 1. The Development of the Stalinist Economic System in the USSR 2. The Origins of the Stalinist Model in Eastern Europe 3. The Planning System in Eastern Europe 4. Innovation and Economic Reform Part 2: Wages, Retail Trade and Consumer Equilibrium 5. Money, Banking and Consumer Equilibrium 6. Macroeconomic Equilibrium and the Control of Inflation in Eastern Europe: Theory 7. Wage Pressures and Open Inflation in Eastern Europe Part 3: International Economic Relations 8. The Economic and Institutional Background to East European Trade 9. Economic Integration and the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) 10. East-West Trade and the Strategy of Import-Led Growth 11. The Energy Crisis and East-West Trade
Biography
Alan H. Smith was Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at UCL SSEES. A firm believer in knowledge exchange, he advised government departments and corporations. He organized regular seminars for the Ministry of Defence. He was active in the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and after the fall of the USSR organized the Post-Soviet Business Forum there.
