Journal of Comparative Economics

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Volume 9, issue 4, 1985

Western project-investment theory and soviet investment rules pp. 345-362

Alan J. Abouchar

The trend level of imports by CMEA countries pp. 363-370

Martin Browning

Removing export-credit subsidies to the Soviet bloc: Who gets hurt and by how much pp. 371-390

Keith Crane and Daniel F. Kohler

The effect of housing allocation on social inequality in Hungary pp. 391-409

Zsuzsa Daniel

Comecon: A "Trade-Destroying" Customs Union? pp. 410-423

Franklyn D. Holzman

The size of public employment: An empirical study pp. 424-437

Peter Murrell

The effects of economic reform in Yugoslavia: Investment & trade policy, 1959-1976:, Berkeley, Ca: Institute of International Studies, 1983. xi + 189 pp., index, $9.50 pp. 438-440

Stephen Sacks

The soviet industrial enterprise: Theory and practice:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. ix + 172 pp. Cloth. $22.50 pp. 441-442

James Thornton

Energy economics and foreign policy in the Soviet Union:, Washington, D. C.: Brookings, 1984. xi + 228 pp., index. $28.95 pp. 443-444

Josef Brada

Prospects for Soviet agriculture in the 1980s:, Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1983. x + 214 pp. Hardcover, $21.88; paper, $11.19 pp. 445-446

Roy D. Laird

Corporatism and change: Austria, Switzerland, and the politics of industry:, Ithaca and London: Cornell Univ. Press, 1984. 331 pp., index. $35.00 pp. 447-449

Anne Henderson

Politics and Technology in the Soviet Union:, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1983. x + 428 pp., index. $45.00 pp. 450-453

Peter Hauslohner

A guidebook to the comparative study of economic systems: Englewood Cliffs N. J.: Prentice Hall, 1985. x + 342 pp., index. Paper, $18.95 pp. 454-457

Paul Gregory

Self-management and efficiency: Large corporations in Yugoslavia:, London: Allen & Unwin, 1983. xi + 163 pp., index. Cloth, $27.50 pp. 458-461

Laura DAndrea Tyson and Christopher Martin

The economic analysis of producers' cooperatives:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. xi + 233 pp., index. $25.00 pp. 462-464

Saul Estrin

The share economy: Conquering stagflation:, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1984. vi + 162 pp., index. $15.00 pp. 465-467

Christopher E. Gunn

Volume 9, issue 3, 1985

The relationship between world and socialist trade prices--some empirical evidence pp. 233-251

Jozef M. Van Brabant

Planning under market socialism when iteration is incomplete pp. 252-266

John Bennett

The size structure of manufacturing establishments and enterprises: An international comparison pp. 267-295

Eva Ehrlich

Random capital service in labor-managed and profit-maximizing firms pp. 296-313

Robert E. Martin

Interdependent utility and cooperative behavior pp. 314-328

Uriel Spiegel and Joseph Templeman

The soviet economy toward the year 2000: London: Allen & Unwin, 1983. 446 pp., index. $37.50 pp. 329-335

Barbara Katz

Japan's economy in a comparative perspective:, Tenterten, Kent: Norbury, 1983. 220 pp., index pp. 336-338

Alberto Chilosi

Workers' self-management in the United States:, Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 1984. 251 pp., index. $25.00 pp. 339-341

Matthew D. Berman

The diffusion of mature technologies:, New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1984. ix + 96 pp., index. $24.95 pp. 342-343

Jiri Slama

Volume 9, issue 2, 1985

China's cellular economy: A test of the fragmentation hypothesis pp. 125-144

Thomas P. Lyons

Systemic influences on the physical quality of life: A Bayesian analysis of cross-sectional data pp. 145-163

John Burkett

Consumer prices and private consumption in Poland and Austria pp. 164-177

Benedykt Askanas and Kazimierz Laski

A comparison of purchasing power parity and consumption levels in Austria and Czechoslovakia pp. 178-190

Peter Havlik

A comparative analysis of the fiscal policies of industrial and developing countries--policy instability and governmental-regime instability pp. 191-196

Thomas L. Brewer

The islamic economic system pp. 197-223

Frederic L. Pryor

The norwegian economy pp. 224-224

Peter Murrell

The Soviet Budget pp. 225-226

Holland Hunter

Finnish-Soviet economic relations pp. 227-229

Paul Marer

International gas trade in europe. The policies of exporting and importing countries pp. 230-231

Robert W. Campbell

Volume 9, issue 1, 1985

Total factor productivity in postwar Soviet industry and its branches pp. 1-23

Padma Desai

Soviet agricultural procurement pricing: A study in perversity pp. 24-45

Michael Wyzan

Foreign trade, resource allocation, and structural adjustment in Yugoslavia: 1976-1980 pp. 46-70

Sherman Robinson and Laura DAndrea Tyson

The effects of aggregation on the difference between Laspeyres and Paasche indices pp. 71-79

Gilbert De Bartolo and Franklyn D. Holzman

Soviet subsidization of Eastern Europe: The primacy of economics over politics? pp. 80-92

Josef Brada

Sravnitelen analiz na ikonomicheskite sistemi; teorii, realnost, tendentsii (Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems; Theory, Reality, Trends). Sofia: Partizdat, 1982. 232 pp., index. Lv. 1.25 pp. 93-95

Mark Allen

Worker capitalism: The new industrial relations:, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1983. vi + 180 pp., index. $25.00 pp. 96-98

Katrina V. Berman

The Process of Investment in the Soviet Union.:, Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983. vii + 254 pp., index. $24.95 pp. 99-101

Alan Abouchar

Self-management: Economic theory and yugoslav practice:, Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983. x + 264 pp., index. $49.50 pp. 102-106

Louis Putterman

Governments and multinationals: The policy of control versus autonomy: (in cooperation with Anant R. Negandhi), ed., Cambridge, Mass.: Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain, 1983. vii + 343 pp., indexes. $30 pp. 107-109

Josef Brada

The economics of labormanaged enterprises:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. x + 218 pp., index. $27.50 pp. 110-113

Michael A. Conte

National income and outlay in Czechoslovakia, Poland and Yugoslavia:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. viii + 117 pp., index pp. 114-118

Thad P. Alton

Japan's reluctant multinationals: Japanese management at home and abroad:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. xviii + 223 pp., index. $27.50 pp. 119-122

Thomas A. Pugel

Volume 8, issue 4, 1984

China's new agricultural-policy program: Major economic consequences, 1979-1983 pp. 353-375

Yak-Yeow Kueh

Introduction pp. 376-376

J. M. Montias

Industrial policy in Eastern Europe: A three-country comparison pp. 377-419

Josef Brada and John Michael Montias

Japan's industrial policy: Instruments, trends, and effects pp. 420-435

Thomas A. Pugel

Industrial policy in developing countries pp. 436-451

Kemal Dervis and John Page

Employment policies in the soviet union and Eastern Europe:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. xvii + 216 pp., index. $27.50 pp. 452-455

Gabor Revesz

China's financial system: The changing role of banks: Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1983. xi + 187 pp., no index. Softcover, $17.00 pp. 456-457

Thomas Rawski

Soviet energy technologies: Planning, policy, research and development: Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana Univ. Press, 1980. x + 268 pp., index. $22.50 pp. 458-460

Robert J. McIntyre

East-West technology transfer, study of Poland, 1970-1980: Paris: OECD, 1983. 197 pp., no index. $22.00 pp. 461-463

Kazimierz Z. Poznanski

Agriculture in China's modern economic development: New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983. iv + 285 pp., index. $37.50 pp. 464-466

Dwight Perkins

Chen Yun's strategy for China's development: A non-maoist alternative:, Translated by Mao Tong and Du Anxia. The China Book Project. Armonk, N. Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1983. xliii + 211 pp., no index. $25.00 pp. 467-469

Jan S. Prybyla

The functioning of the Yugoslav economy:, Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1982. ix + 276 pp. $35.00 pp. 470-472

Derek Jones

Urban inequality under state socialism:, New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1983. ix + 156 pp., index. Cloth, $29.95. Paper, $11.50 pp. 473-474

Robert C. Stuart

Workers' participation and self-management in Turkey:, The Hague, The Netherlands: Institute of Social Studies and Martinus Nijhoff, 1983. xiv + 254 pp. Dfl. 11.00 pp. 475-477

Derek C. Jones

The economies of Eastern Europe:, Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1984. ix + 171 pp., index. $30.00 pp. 478-479

Marvin R. Jackson

Volume 8, issue 3, 1984

A model of income distribution in a revenue-sharing firm pp. 237-246

John Bennett

On the stability of the cooperative type of organization pp. 247-260

Avner Ben-Ner

Incentives and income under market socialism pp. 261-276

Peter Murrell

The Applicability of information-revealing incentive schemes in economic organizations pp. 277-289

Peter Murrell and Jeffrey Miller

Behavioral rules in the distribution of sectoral investments in Hungary, 1951-1980 pp. 290-300

Mia Lackoo

Disequilibrium theory, waiting costs, and saving behavior in centrally planned economies: A queueing-theoretic approach pp. 301-321

Barbara Katz and Joel Owen

"Labor-managed cournot oligopoly and industry output": A comment pp. 322-327

Hugh M. Neary

Managerial objectives and equilibrium output in the socialist firm: A comment pp. 328-332

Leonore Shever Taga

Managerial objectives and equilibrium outputs in the socialist firm: reply pp. 333-334

Chad-Nan Liu

Military expansion, economic decline:, Armonk, N. Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1983. viii + 248 pp. (of which 138 pp. are tables). Cloth, $25.00; paper, $11.95 pp. 335-337

Ronald Smith

Marxism, central planning, and the soviet economy: Economic essays in honor of Alexander Erlich:, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1983. xix + 285 pp., index. $35.00 pp. 338-339

Edward Ames

Democratic economic policy--a theoretical introduction:,New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. vii + 303 pp., indexes. Cloth $32.50 pp. 340-342

Giandomenico Majone

Social needs versus economic efficiency in China. Sun Yefang's critique of socialist economics:, Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1982. 147 pp., index. $35.00, cloth pp. 343-344

Lynn Turgeon

The economics of feasible socialism:, Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1983. 244 pp., index. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $9.95 pp. 345-347

Lynn Turgeon

Entrepreneurs in red: Structural and organizational innovation in the centrally planned economy:, Albany, N. Y.: State Univ. of New York Press, 1983. xvii + 260 pp., index. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $14.95 pp. 348-349

Gertrude E. Schroeder

Stalinist strategy in practice. The case of Albania:, Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1982. x + 170 pp., index. $36.00 pp. 350-352

J. Michael Montias

Volume 8, issue 2, 1984

In memoriam Carl Landauer 1891-1983 pp. 119-120

Gregory Grossman

Income distribution in East European and Western countries pp. 121-138

Christian Morrisson

Indirect public control of self-managed monopolies pp. 139-158

Roger Guesnerie and Jean-Jacques Laffont

On material balances when there are capacity limitations pp. 159-167

Parkash Chander

Basque versus Illyrian labor-managed firms: The problem of property rights pp. 168-181

Benedetto Gui

Individual incentives by adjusting work hours: Bellamy's egalitarian economy pp. 182-206

Franco Cugno and Mario Ferrero

Industrial innovation in the Soviet union:, eds., New Haven, London: Yale Univ. Press, 1982. xxix + 526 pp., indexes. $50.00 pp. 207-211

Michael Boretsky

Unemployment: The European perspective:, eds., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. 180 pp., no index. $22.50 pp. 212-214

Walter Galenson

The grants economy and collective consumption: Proceedings of a conference held by the international economic association at Cambridge, England:, eds. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982, xvi + 338 pp., index pp. 215-216

Edward Ames

An evolutionary theory or economic change:, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1982. xi + 437 pp., index; $25.00 pp. 217-221

Edward Ames

Japan's economy-coping with change in the international environment:, ed., Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1982. xv + 304 pp., index. Hardcover, $30.00; paper, $13.50 pp. 222-225

Hiroshi Niida

The Economy of Yugoslavia.: London and Canberra: Croon Helm; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. 297 pp., index. $32.50 pp. 226-227

Deborah Duff Milenkovitch

Workers and Incentives:, Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1982. 239 pp. $60.00 pp. 228-231

Louis Putterman

The Performance of Labour-Managed Firms:, ed., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. xi + 280 pp., index. $27.50 pp. 232-234

Slobodan Ostojic

Industrial Economics: Australian Studies:, eds., Winchester, Massachusetts: Allen & Unwin, 1982. viii + 479 pp., index, $48.50 pp. 235-236

Sharon Moster

Volume 8, issue 1, 1984

The "second economy" and resource allocation under central planning pp. 1-24

Richard E. Ericson

The Polish economic collapse: Contributing factors and economic costs pp. 25-40

David Kemme and Keith Crane

Stepwise aggregation for material balances pp. 41-53

Masaaki Kuboniwa

Cooperation in the Moshav pp. 54-73

Nava Haruvi and Yoav Kislev

Kornai's resource-constrained economy: A survey and an appraisal pp. 74-84

Michael Marrese and Janet L. Mitchell

The collaboration of nations. A study of European economic policy:, Eds., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. x + 252 pp., index. $25.00 pp. 85-87

Bela Balassa

French planning in theory and practice:, London: Allen and Unwin, 1983. 224 pp., index. $29.50 pp. 88-90

Jeffrey Miller

The French economy:, New York: Holmes and Meier, 1982. 226 pp., index; cloth $29.50 pp. 91-92

Peter Murrell

Farmer education and farm efficiency:, Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. xxvii + 292 pp., index. $27.50 pp. 93-95

Robert E. Evenson

Participatory and self-managed firms:, eds., viii + 359 pp. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1982. $34.95 pp. 96-97

John Suckling

Soviet economic planning, 1965-1980:, With Foreword by Herbert S. Levine. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1982. xvi + 177 pp., index. Softcover: $16.50 pp. 98-100

Avner Ben-Ner

Balkan economic history 1550-1950; From imperial borderlands to developing nations:, Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1982. xviii + 728 pp., index. $37.50 pp. 101-104

J. M. Montias

Productivity and industrial structure:, National Institute of Economics and Social Research Study No. 33. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. xix + 401 pp., index. $39.50 pp. 105-106

Kent Healy

Economic welfare and the economics of Soviet socialism: Essays in honor of Abram Bergson:, Ed., Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1981. xiii + 340 pp., index. $39.50 pp. 107-108

Judy Thornton

Agrarian policies in communist Europe, Vol. I. Studies in East European and Soviet agrarian policy:, The Hague and London: Martinus Nijhoff; Totowa, N. J.: Allanheld Osmun, 1982. xii + 324 pp., index. $24.95 pp. 109-110

Roy D. Laird

Economic reform in the PRC. In which China's economists make known what went wrong, why, and what should be done about it:, editor and translator, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1982. xii + 155 pp., with glossary, references, academic biographies of the contributors, and index. Hardcover, $17.00; paper, $8.95 pp. 111-113

Wlodzimierz Brus

Sogo Shosha: The vanguard of the Japanese economy:, Tokyo: Oxford Univ. Press, 1982. xvii + 358 pp., index. $24.95 pp. 114-116

Yoshi Tsurumi