Journal of Comparative Economics

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Volume 12, issue 4, 1988

An international comparison of material intensity pp. 475-501

Stanislaw Gomulka and Jacek Rostowski

Budget constraints, bailouts, and the firm under central planning pp. 502-520

Stephen M. Goldfeld and Richard E. Quandt

Military spending in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland pp. 521-545

Keith Crane

An equilibrium model of a second economy market in a centrally planned economy pp. 546-569

Barbara Katz and Joel Owen

Productivity change in Chinese industry: 1953-1985 pp. 570-591

Chen Kuan, Wang Hongchang, Zheng Yuxin, Gary Jefferson and Thomas Rawski

Price distortion and income dispersion in a labor-managed economy: Evidence from Yugoslavia pp. 592-603

Pavle Petrovic

Microeconomic analysis of parallel markets pp. 604-609

Daniel Rich and Michael Wyzan

Microeconomic modeling of parallel markets pp. 610-613

Michael Alexeev

The Hungarian economy in the twentieth century:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. 316 pp., index, $32.50 pp. 614-616

Xavier Richet

Sectors of mutual benefit in U.S.-Soviet relations:, Ed., Durham: Duke University Press, 1985. xxii + 254 pp., index, $35.00 pp. 617-618

Carl McMillan

Ideology and national competitiveness: An analysis of nine countries:, Eds., Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1987. x + 350 pp., index, $24.95 pp. 619-621

Brendan Kennelly

Peasants, collectives and choice: Economic theory and Tanzania's Villages:, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, Inc., 1986. xviii + 389 pp., $24.75 pp. 622-622

Michael Ellman

Productivity in the distributive trades: A comparison of Britain, America and Germany:, Cambridge: National Institute of Economic and Social Research and Cambridge University Press, 1985. xii + 161 pp., index, $29.95 pp. 623-625

Roger Skurski

Dominant powers and subordinate states: The United States in Latin America and the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe:, Ed., Durham: Duke University Press, 1986. 504 pp., index, $57.50 pp. 626-628

Ellen Comisso

Comecon, trade and the west:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. xii + 176 pp., index, $32.50 pp. 629-630

Marie Lavigne

Volume 12, issue 3, 1988

Corporatism as an economic system: A review essay pp. 317-344

Frederic L. Pryor

Some macroeconomic consequences of trade with centrally planned economies pp. 345-361

Yrjana Tolonen

Financial constraints and the trade-off between salaries and savings in labor-managed firms pp. 362-379

Janet Mitchell

Competition and the transition of finance in Japan and the United States pp. 380-400

Thomas Cargill

Technical change in Illyria pp. 401-415

Anthony Brewer

Cooperation in Science and Technology:, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1986. xxiii + 334 pp., index, $26.00 pp. 416-419

Philip Hanson

Technical progress and soviet economic development:, Eds. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986. 214 pp., index. $45.00 pp. 420-423

Steven W. Popper

The political economy of U.S. import policy:,. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985. xi + 238 pp., index. $22.50 pp. 424-426

H. Peter Gray

Wage rigidity and unemployment:., Ed.. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. vii + 219 pp., index, $30.00 pp. 427-432

Jeffrey Wrase

Toward renewed economic growth in Latin America:,. Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1986. 205 pp., index pp. 433-436

Francisco Thoumi

East-West economic relations in the changing global environment:, Eds., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. xxiv + 429 pp., index, $35.00 pp. 437-439

Jozef M. van Brabant

The decline of the British Economy:, New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. vii + 310, index, 49.95 pp. 440-442

Lars G. Sandberg

The Economic Mind: The social psychology of economic behavior:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. xii + 292 pp., index. $35.00 pp. 443-445

Greg J. Duncan

The tsarist economy 1850-1917:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. xvi + 228 pp., index. $29.95 pp. 446-447

Paul R. Gregory

The transportation of Soviet energy resources:, Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman & Littlefield, 1986. xvi + 177 pp., index, $32.50 pp. 448-449

Holland Hunter

World economic growth: Case studies of developed and developing nations:, San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1984. xii + 508, $22.95 pp. 450-453

Paul P. Streeten

Advanced industrial development: Restructuring, relocation, and renewal:, Boston: Oelgeschlager, Gunn, & Hain, 1985. xx + 321 pp., index pp. 454-455

William B. Beyers

The European energy challenge: East and West:, Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 1985. xxvii + 207 pp., index. $34.75 pp. 456-458

Raimund Dietz

Taxation in the Soviet Union:, New York: Praeger, 1986. xii + 392 pp., index, $39.95 pp. 459-461

P. T. Wanless

Socialism, economics and development:, London: Allen & Unwin, 1986. ix + 243 pp., index. $29.95 pp. 462-464

Edward Ames

Petroleum and structural change in a developing country: The case of Nigeria:,. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1986. xvii + 206 pp., index, $39.95 pp. 465-467

Holder L. Engberg

Fragile interdependence: Economic issues in U.S.-Japanese trade and investment:, Ed., New York: Lexington Books, 1986. xii + 276 pp., index. $30.00 pp. 468-469

Leon Hollerman

Women, state, and party in Eastern Europe:, Eds., Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 1985. xlv + 453 pp., index. $42.50 pp. 470-472

Lynn Turgeon

The Soviet iron and steel industry:, Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman & Allanheld, 1986. xvii + 237 pp., $35.00 pp. 473-473

Holland Hunter

Volume 12, issue 2, 1988

The comparative statics of the Ward-Domar labor-managed firm: A profit-function approach pp. 159-181

Hugh M. Neary

An international comparison of Okun's laws pp. 182-203

Roger Kaufman

Dynamic allocation in a labor-managed firm pp. 204-216

Stephen Smith and Meng-Hua Ye

The natural resource intensity of production technology in market and planned economies: Austria vs Czechoslovakia pp. 217-227

Zdenek Drabek

The effect of housing allocation on social inequality: A soviet perspective pp. 228-234

Michael Alexeev

On the responses of the Illyrian and entrepreneurial monopolies to a change in market conditions: An extension pp. 235-239

Joseph Deutsch and Nava Kahana

Is there anything perverse about the labor-managed firm? pp. 240-243

Leif Danziger

Consistency in Soviet investment rules pp. 244-247

Paul Goldberg

Marxist regime series III pp. 248-255

Frederic L. Pryor

The state and capital accumulation in Latin America, Vol. 1, Brazil, Chile, Mexico,:, Eds., Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1985. xiii + 254 pp., index. $23.95 pp. 256-259

JoseA. Mendez

The foundations of economics: Structures of inquiry and economic theory:, Eds., Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986. xii + 454 pp pp. 260-263

Randall S. Kroszner

The Pacific century: Economic and political consequences of Asian-Pacific dynamism:, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1986. vi + 154 pp., index. $18.95 pp. 264-265

Joseph Finger

Economic nationalism in the third world:, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1986. x + 294 pp. $30.00 pp. 266-268

H. Peter Gray

Regional emigration and remittances in developing countries: The Portuguese experience:, New York: Praeger, 1986. xii + 258 pp., index. $39.95 pp. 269-270

Eric N. Baklanoff

Economic policy in an interdependent world: Essays in world economics:, Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, 1986. xii + 331 pp., index pp. 271-272

Lawrence Officer

Devaluation under pressure: India, Indonesia and Ghana:, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986. xi + 260 pp., index. $25.00 pp. 273-274

Hali Edison

Unions in crisis and beyond: Perspectives from six countries:, eds., Dover, MA: Auburn House Publishing Co., 1986. xii + 340 pp., index. $35.50 pp. 275-277

Mahmood A. Zaidi

Growth, innovation, and reform in Eastern Europe:, Madison, WI: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1986. x + 305 pp., index. $32.50 pp. 278-280

Robert S. Whitesell

The political economy of European trade:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. xviii + 294 pp., $29.95 pp. 281-282

Ingo Walter

China's special economic zones: Policies, problems, and prospects:, eds., Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1986. x + 246 pp., index. $37.00 pp. 283-284

Gavin Peebles

The industrial policy debate:, ed., San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies Press, 1984. x + 275 pp., $21.95 pp. 285-288

William Diebold

Analyzing redistribution policies. A study using Australian data:, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. ix + 293 pp., index. $47.50 pp. 289-291

Jan M. Michal

The CMEA countries in the world economy: Turning inwards or turning outwards:, Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1985. 248 pp., index. $26.00 pp. 292-295

Jozef M. van Brabant

Models of development: A comparative study of economic growth in South Korea and Taiwan:, ed., San Francisco: ICS Press, 1986. xv + 217 pp., index. $10.95 pp. 296-297

Walter Galenson

Economic policy & policy making under the mitterand presidency, 1981-1984:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. x + 293 pp., index. $27.50 pp. 298-300

Bela Balassa

Economy and democracy:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. xii + 260 pp. $39.95 pp. 301-303

Roger L. Faith

The burden of government:, Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1986. x + 188 pp., $23.95 pp. 304-305

Frank Lichtenberg

Technology exports from the Socialist countries: Westview special studies in international economics and business:, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1986. x + 170 pp. $19.50 pp. 306-307

Kazimierz Poznanski

The contemporary Soviet city: (eds.), Armonk, N.Y.: Sharpe, 1984. xiv + 262 pp. $30.00 pp. 308-309

Theodore Shabad

Britain's economic renaissance. Margaret Thatcher's reforms 1979-1984:, New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. 200 pp., index. $26.50 pp. 310-313

Rowena Pecchenino

Volume 12, issue 1, 1988

Management design under labor management pp. 1-23

Norman J. Ireland and Peter J. Law

Regional productivity differentials and development policy in Yugoslavia, 1965-1978 pp. 24-42

Deborah A. Bateman, Mieko Nishimizu and John Page

Disequilibrium in Poland's consumer markets: Further evidence on intermarket spillovers pp. 43-60

Leon Podkaminer

The performance of private and socialist agriculture in Poland: The effects of policy and organization pp. 61-73

Michael L. Boyd

Risk-taking as a justification for property income pp. 74-88

James A. Yunker

Fair distribution rule in a cooperative enterprise pp. 89-92

Suk Kang

Marxist regimes: Series II pp. 93-98

Frederic L. Pryor

The structure and reform of the U.S. tax system:, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1985. xvii + 249 pp. $16.95 pp. 99-100

Edward Foster

Loading the dice: A five country study of vinyl chloride regulation:, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1985. vii + 176 pp., index. $19.95 pp. 101-102

Jiri Slama

The United States-Japan economic problem:, Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics, 1985. 164 pp., no index. Paperback, $10.00 pp. 103-105

Chalmers Johnson

Communism and development:, New York: Methuen, 1986. x + 315 pp., index. $39.95 pp. 106-107

Zbgniew M. Fallenbuchl

Ethics, efficiency and the market:, Totowa: Rowman & Allenheld, 1985. xi + 135 pp., index. $10.95 pp. 108-110

Alberto Chilosi

Soviet workers and stalinist industrialization: The formation of modern Soviet production relations, 1928-1941:, Armonk, NY: Sharpe, 1986. vi + 338 pp., index. $32.50, hardcover pp. 111-112

David Granick

Socialist economy and economic policy: Essays in honor of Friedrich Levcik:, Vienna: Springer-Verlag, 1985. 299 pp pp. 113-116

Zdenek Drabek

Economic reform and income distribution: A case study of Hungary and Poland:, Armonk: Sharp, 1986. xi + 194 pp. $35.00 pp. 117-118

Marton Tardos

Technocratic socialism: The Soviet Union in the advanced industrial era:, Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 1985. ix + 228 pp., index. $37.50 pp. 119-120

Peter Rutland

Financing, adjustment, and the international monetary fund:, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1986. 89 pp. No price pp. 121-121

Paul Marer

Stagflation, savings and the state: Perspectives on the global economy:, Eds., New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1986. xii + 402 pp pp. 122-125

Robert Stern

Labour and employment in the USSR:, Ed., New York: New York Univ. Press, 1986. viii + 280 pp., index. $37.50 pp. 126-128

Susan Linz

Private education: Studies in choice and public policy:, Ed., Oxford/New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1986. 272 pp., index. $34.95 pp. 129-131

Harold J. Noah

Organizations and growth in rural China:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. xx + 220 pp., index. $27.50 pp. 132-134

Katsuji Nakagane

Chinese rural development: The great transformation:, Ed., New York: Sharpe, 1985. vii + 278 pp., index. $35.00 pp. 135-138

Claude Aubert

Trade, technology and Soviet-American relations:, Ed., Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1985. 394 pp., index. $17.50, paper pp. 139-147

Joseph Smolik

Economic warfare or detente: An assessment of East-West economic relations in the 1980s:, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1985. xii + 301 pp. $30.00 pp. 148-149

Gary Bertsch

Money, finance, and macroeconomic performance in Japan:, New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1986. xvii + 218 pp., index. No price pp. 150-154

Ryuzo Sato

Innovation policies: An international perspective:, Ed., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985.206 pp. $22.50 pp. 155-156

Martin Cave

The invisible link: Japan's sogo shosha and the organization of trade:, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986. x + 289 pp., index. $19.95 pp. 157-158

Bogdan Mieczkowski