Journal of Comparative Economics

1977 - 2025

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Volume 6, issue 4, 1982

The ministry, plan changes, and the ratchet in planning pp. 327-342

Michael Keren

On the efficiency of a chinese-type work-point system pp. 343-352

Jacques Crémer

Management contribution and the allocation of time in a labor-managed firm pp. 353-362

Benjamin Bental, Uri Ben Zion and Menahem Spiegel

Long-run supply responses under self-management pp. 363-378

Saul Estrin

The Austrian theory of the cooperative firm pp. 379-395

Branko Milanovic

The Yugoslav inflation pp. 396-405

Michael Wyzan and Andrew M. Utter

Economics of shortage and non-price control pp. 406-425

Paul Hare

Recession, the western economies, and the changing world order:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. 181 pp., index. $22.50 pp. 426-427

Ronald Smith

The world economic order. Past and prospects:, eds., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. x + 599 pp., index. $37.50 pp. 430-432

Leif Johansen

The development of Japanese business, 1600-1980:, Second Edition. London: Allen & Unwin, 1975, 1981. 406 pp., index. Paper: $15.95 pp. 433-435

Yoshi Tsurumi

MITI and the Japanese miracle: The growth of industrial policy, 1925-1975:, Stanford, California: Stanford Univ. Press, 1982. x + 363 pp., index. $28.50 pp. 436-439

Philip H. Trezise

East European integration and East-West trade:, Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1980. xvi + 432 pp., index. $32.50 pp. 440-447

Laszlo Csaba

Volume 6, issue 3, 1982

Effort, efficiency, and incentives in economic organizations pp. 223-234

David Conn

Cooperation in a fixed-membership labor-managed enterprise pp. 235-247

Martin Browning

Information and incentives in labor-managed economies pp. 248-268

William Thomson

More on the theory of the competitive labor-managed firm under price uncertainty pp. 269-272

Ira Horowitz

A note on international comparisons of savings rates pp. 273-277

John Whalley

Disguised inflation in soviet industry A rejoinder to Steven Rosefielde, "Are Soviet industrial-production statistics significantly distorted by hidden inflation"? pp. 278-287

James E. Steiner

The plantation economy as an economic system pp. 288-317

Frederic L. Pryor

Alternative Approaches to Economic planning:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. viii + 226 pp., index; cloth, $27.50 pp. 318-320

David Conn

Industrial Cooperation between East and West:, White Plains, N. Y.: Sharpe, 1979. xii + 287 pp., no index. $25.00 pp. 321-321

Paul Marer

The Yugoslav Economic System and Its Performance in the 1970s:, Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, Univ. of California, 1980. vii + 112 pp., no index, $4.50 pp. 322-325

Slobodan Ostojic

Volume 6, issue 2, 1982

The nonprofit sector in international perspective: The case of Sri Lanka pp. 99-129

Estelle James

The end of import-led growth? Some observations on Soviet, Polish, and Hungarian experience in the 1970s pp. 130-147

Philip Hanson

The economics of joint ventures in centrally planned and labor-managed economies pp. 148-172

Jan Svejnar and Stephen Smith

Earnings differentials and household-income differentials in Hungary--Policies and practice pp. 173-203

Jan Adam and Miloslav Nosal

Managerial objectives and equilibrium outputs in the socialist firm pp. 204-212

Chao-nan Liu

Wealth and poverty:, New York: Basic Books, 1981. xii + 306 pp. $16.95 pp. 213-216

Louis Putterman

Travail et monnaie en systeme socialiste:, Coordinator, Paris: Economica, 1981. 311 pp., no index pp. 217-217

George Garvy

Western economies in transition: Structural change and adjustment policies in industrial countries:, eds., Hudson Institute Studies on the Prospects for Mankind. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press; London: Croom Helm, 1980. pp. xvi + 438, index. $29.50 pp. 218-221

William Watson

Regulated industries and public enterprise: European and United States perspectives:, eds., Lexington, Mass.: Heath, 1979. ix + 291 pp., index. $29.95 pp. 222-222

Richard R. Nelson

Volume 6, issue 1, 1982

Allocative and X-efficiency in state-owned mining enterprises: Comparisons between Bolivia and Indonesia pp. 1-23

Stephen Gillis

Soviet enterprise behavior under uncertainty pp. 24-36

Susan Linz and Robert E. Martin

Optimal foreign trade for the price-insensitive soviet-type economy pp. 37-54

Thomas A. Wolf

Appropriability rules, capital maintenance, and the efficiency of cooperative investment pp. 55-74

Nicos Zafiris

The ratchet principle: A diagrammatic interpretation pp. 75-80

Chao-Nan Liu

Comparative economic systems: A review of recent textbooks pp. 81-85

Carmelo Mesa-lago

Equality, moral incentives, and the market: An essay in utopian politico-economic theory:, Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1981. xii + 252 pp., name and subject indexes. $19.00 pp. 86-87

Frederic L. Pryor

Alienation and charisma: A study of contemporary American communes:, New York: The Free Press, 1980. xxiv + 455 pp., name and subject indexes, $22.95 pp. 86-87

Frederic L. Pryor

Reversing economic decline:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. xv + 194 pp., index. $27.50, hard cover pp. 88-89

Raymond W. Goldsmith

The USSR's management of foreign trade:, Edited with a Foreword by Edward A. Hewett. White Plains, N. Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1979. xi + 241 pp., glossary, no index, $20.00 pp. 90-91

T. O. M. Kronsjo

Managers and management in West Germany:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980. iv + 202 pp., index, $27.50 pp. 92-93

David Granick

Unemployment in Western countries.:, New York: St. Martin's Press for the International Economic Association, 1980. xiv + 551 pp., index. $40.-, cloth pp. 94-96

Daniel Hamermesh

Volume 5, issue 4, 1981

The theory of the labor-managed firm from the membership's perspective with implications for marshallian industry supply pp. 337-351

John P. Bonin

An evaluation of the success of the hungarian economic reform: An analysis using international-trade data pp. 352-366

Peter Murrell

A quasi-competitive price basis for intersystem comparisons of economic structure and performance pp. 367-391

Francis Seton

On optimality in collective institutional choice pp. 392-403

Louis Putterman

Municipal energy supply and district heating: A comment on Robert J. McIntyre and James R. Thornton, "Urban design and energy utilization: A comparative analysis of soviet practice" pp. 404-413

Helene Ryding

Energy systems and comparative systems: A reply to Ryding pp. 414-417

Robert J. McIntyre and James R. Thornton

The economic transformation of Spain and Portugal:, New York: Praeger, 1979. xx + 211 pp., index. $19.95 pp. 418-420

Jorge Braga de Macedo

Computers and economic planning: The soviet experience:, London/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980. xi + 220 pp., index. $27.50 pp. 421-422

J. M. Montias

New developments in productivity measurement and analysis:, eds., Studies in Income and Wealth, Vol. 44. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1980. ix + 717 pp., author and subject indexes, $52.00 pp. 423-425

Wallace Huffman

Les economies socialiStes, sovietique et europeennes, Second French edition. Paris: Colin, 1979. 437 pp., index pp. 426-427

Alberto Chilosi

Social security in Latin America: Pressure groups, stratification and inequality:, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978. xix + 351 pp., index. $19.95 pp. 428-430

Bruno Stein

Economic equality and fertility in developing countries:, Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins University Press (for Resources for the Future), 1979. xv + 186 pp., index. $14.50 pp. 431-433

Dennis L. Chinn

Au[beta]enwirtschaftspolitik und Stabilisierung von Wirtschaftssystemen, eds., Schriften zum Vergleich von Wirtschaftsordnungen, Vol. 28. Stuttgart/New York: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1980. viii + 379 pp., author & subject indexes. DM 34.- pp. 434-436

Jozef M. van Brabant

Origins of economic thought and justice:, Carbondale and Edwardsville, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980. xv + 174 pp., index. $15.00 pp. 437-438

Frederic L. Pryor

Romania: The industrialization of an agrarian economy under socialist planning:, coordinators, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press for the World Bank, 1979. xxxv + 707 pp. (incl. 304 pp. of appendices), no index. $30.- hardcover, $9.95 paper pp. 439-442

Marvin R. Jackson

Socialist economic integration. Aspects of contemporary economic problems in Eastern Europe:, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980. xiv + 362 pp., index. $29.50 pp. 443-445

Marie Lavigne

Volume 5, issue 3, 1981

On estimating efficiency differentials between the public and private sectors in a developing economy--Iraq pp. 235-250

Victor Levy

Limitations on the use of information-revealing incentive schemes in economic organizations pp. 251-271

Jeffrey Miller and Peter Murrell

Aggregate planning by means of input-output and material-balances systems pp. 272-291

Paul Hare

Dynamic adjustment of labor allocation between collective, state, or cooperative farming and private farming in a planned economy pp. 292-317

Armen H. Zemanian

Lectures on economic planning:, Vol. 1, x + 355 pp; Vol. 11, ix + 411 pp. Amsterdam/New York: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1977, 1978. Author and subject indexes. Vol. 1: $34.25 (Fl. 70.-); Vol. 11: $44.00 pp. 318-321

Pieter de Wolff

Income inequality. Trends and international comparisons:, ed., Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath and Company, 1979; xiii + 191 pp., subject index. $19.95 pp. 322-325

Jan Tinbergen

The origins of the economy: A comparative study of distribution in primitive and peasant economies:, New York: Academic Press, 1977. xviii + 458 pp., index. $21.50 pp. 326-328

Anne Mayhew

Corruption. A study in political economy:, New York: Academic Press, 1978. xii + 258 pp., author and subject indexes. $16.95 pp. 329-333

Peter J. D. Wiles

Political control of the economy:, Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1978. xi + 168 pp, index. $10.- pp. 334-336

Cynthia Taft Morris

Volume 5, issue 2, 1981

Decentralization and the command principle--some lessons from Soviet Experience pp. 121-148

David A. Dyker

A comparative engineering-economic analysis of the evolution of the Soviet mainline freight locomotive pp. 149-168

William Boncher

Measuring inflation in the soviet machinebuilding sector, 1960-1973 pp. 169-184

Robert E. Leggett

Are Soviet industrial-production statistics significantly distorted by hidden inflation? pp. 185-199

Steven Rosefielde

The inferior quality of Soviet machinery as reflected in export prices pp. 200-221

Vladimir G. Treml

The technological level of Soviet industry.:, eds., New Haven, London: Yale Univ. Press, 1977. xxxiii + 575 pp., name and subject indexes, $35.00 pp. 222-225

Michael Boretsky

Economic welfare in the Soviet Union: Poverty, living standards, and inequality: Madison: University of Wisconsin Press; Herts, England: Allen & Unwin, 1979. xix + 389 pp., index, $25.00 pp. 226-228

Janet G. Chapman

Stalinist planning for economic growth, 1933-1952:, Translated from the French and edited by Marie-Christine MacAndrew and John H. Moore. Salem: University of North Carolina Press, 1980. xxxiv + 754 pp., index, $50.00 pp. 229-233

Paul R. Gregory

Volume 5, issue 1, 1981

Efficiency, incentives, and individual labor supply in the labor-managed firm pp. 1-23

Norman J. Ireland and Peter J. Law

Economic growth in the USSR, Hungary, and East and West Germany pp. 24-42

Norman E. Cameron

Soviet agricultural prices, rent and land cadastrest pp. 43-59

Kenneth R. Gray

An approximation of the relative real per capita GDP of the People's Republic of China pp. 60-78

Irving B. Kravis

Foreign-exchange distribution in Yugoslavia's new planning system: An input-output approach pp. 79-86

Charles R. Chittle

Distribution of personal wealth in Britain: New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1978. xiv + 330 pp., author and subject indexes. $22.95 pp. 87-87

Alec Nove

Income distribution and economic inequality:, eds., New York: Halsted Press/Wiley, 1978. 335 pp., no index. $27.50 pp. 87-89

Alec Nove

The alternative in Eastern Europe:. Translated by David Fernbach. London: NLB, 1978. Distributed in U. S. by Schocken Books; 463 pp., index. $19.50 pp. 90-91

Radoslav Selucky

De-industrialisation:,: National Institute of Economic and Social Research Economic Policy Papers No. 2. London: Heinemann, 1979. 268 pp., no index. Cloth, $30.95; paper, $14.95 pp. 92-95

William Watson

Cuba in the world:, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979. vii + 343 pp. $21.95, cloth; $5.95, paper pp. 96-98

Carlos F. Diaz Alejandro

State and economy in contemporary capitalism:, ed., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. 264 pp.; author and subject indexes. $22.50 pp. 99-101

Assar Lindbeck

Foundations of Gandhian economics:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. viii + 146 pp., index. $14.95 pp. 102-106

Frederic L. Pryor

Collective agriculture and rural development in Soviet Central Asia:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. Index. $18.95 pp. 107-108

Elizabeth Clayton

Regulation et division internationale du travail--L'experience hongroise:, eds., Paris: Economica, 1979. xvii + 188 pp. No index pp. 109-112

Alberto Chilosi

Marxism, socialism, freedom:. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. viii + 237 pp., index, $22.50 pp. 113-115

John Roemer

Zur analyse von wirtschaftssystemen: eine einfuhrung:, (An Introduction to the Analysis of Economic Systems). Berlin/Heidelberg/New York: Springer-Verlag, 1979. 320 pp., author, subject indexes pp. 116-118

Paul Wiedemann

Where are the young specialists on the Soviet Economy and what are they doing? pp. 119-119

Abram Bergson