Journal of Comparative Economics

1977 - 2025

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Volume 4, issue 4, 1980

Technology and labor contract: Two systems of rice harvesting in the Philippines pp. 357-377

Masao Kikuchi and Yujiro Hayami

Collectivization of Chinese agricultural production, 1952-1957: A land-saving organizational change pp. 378-398

Tien-Tung Hsueh and Pak-Wai Liu

A System of personalized funds: A proposal for a centrally planned economy pp. 399-414

Lev M. Dudkin

Devaluation in "Larg" modified centrally planned economies pp. 415-419

Thomas A. Wolf

The Asian mode of production as an economic system pp. 420-442

Frederic L. Pryor

Agrarian structure and productivity in developing countries:, Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979. x + 248 pp., index. $17.50 pp. 443-445

James K. Boyce

Les relations economiques est-ouest: Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1979. 304 pp., index pp. 446-448

Jozef M. Van Brabant

Image and reality in economic development: New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1977. xiii + 498 pp., index. $28.50, cloth pp. 449-450

Irma Adelman

Volume 4, issue 3, 1980

The ministry as the maximizing unit in Soviet industry pp. 255-273

David Granick

Alternative econometric approaches for studying the link between economic systems and economic outcomes pp. 274-294

Edward A. Hewett

Investment allocation and urbanization in socialist economic development: The case of Czechoslovakia of pp. 295-316

Arthur E. King and Josef Brada

Where are the young specialists on the Soviet economy and what are they doing? pp. 317-329

James R. Millar

On the theory of the competitive labor-managed firm under price uncertainty: A correction pp. 331-337

John P. Bonin

On the theory of the competitive labor-managed firm under price uncertainty: Comment pp. 338-341

John Hey and John Suckling

On the theory of the competitive labor-managed firm under price uncertainty: A correction and comment pp. 342-344

Timothy R. Muzondo

Internationale wirtschaftsplanung im RGW:, Paderborn/Munich/Vienna/Zurich: Ferdinand Schoeningh, 1978. 224 pp., no index. DM 18.-, soft cover pp. 345-346

Jan M. Michal

The economics of communist agriculture; selected papers: Edited and with an Introductory Essay by Arthur Wright. Bloomington, Indiana: International Development Institute, 1979. xiii + 404 pp., bibliography, index, $28.50 pp. 347-349

Roy D. Laird

Economic growth and distribution in China: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. xi + 244 pp. index. Cloth, $18.95 pp. 350-355

Shigeru Ishikawa

Volume 4, issue 2, 1980

Collectives, communes, and incentives pp. 99-124

L. Dwight Israelseni

Voluntary collectivization: A model of producers' institutional choice pp. 125-157

Louis Putterman

Allocative and distributional effects of a monopolistic cooperative firm in a capitalist economy pp. 158-172

Esther Gal-Or, Michael Landsberger and Abraham Subotnik

On the economic theory of the labor-managed firm in the short run pp. 173-183

Michael A. Conte

The socialist labor-managed firm and bank-financed investment: Some theoretical issues pp. 184-191

Eirik G. Furubotn

Yugoslavia in the 1970's: Self-management and bargaining pp. 192-208

Ellen T. Comisso

Divisionalization in large Yugoslav enterprises pp. 209-225

Stephen R. Sacks

The Yugoslav economic system pp. 226-237

Jonathan Strauss

Economic democracy: Workers' participation in chilean industry 1970-1973:, New York: Academic Press, 1978. xix + 211 pp., index. $14.00 pp. 238-241

Egon Neuberger and Avner Ben-Ner

Self-governing socialism: A reader:, eds., White Plains, N. Y.: International Arts and Sciences Press, Inc., 1975. Vol. I: Historical Development, Social and Political Philosophy. x + 490 pp., no index. $9.95 paper, $22.50 cloth. Vol. II: Sociology and Politics, Economics. viii + 327 pp., no index. $8.95 paper, $20.00 cloth pp. 242-243

Jonathan Strauss

The codetermination movement in the west:, ed., Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, Heath and Co., 1978. viii + 207 pp., index. $18.00 pp. 244-246

Matthew D. Berman

The labor-managed economy, essays:, Ithaca, N. Y. and London: Cornell Univ. Press, 1977. 287 pp., index; $17.50, paper, $9.95 pp. 247-251

Aleksander Bajt

Volume 4, issue 1, 1980

Income distribution under Soviet-type socialism: An interpretative framework pp. 1-18

Alberto Chilosi

Military expenditure and investment in OECD countries, 1954-1973 pp. 19-32

Ronald Smith

Incentives and efficiency in the kosygin reforms pp. 33-39

Norman J. Ireland and Peter J. Law

Political system and economic efficiency: The east European context pp. 40-55

Wlodzimierz Brus

Feudalism as an economic system pp. 56-77

Frederic L. Pryor

Studies in Soviet economic planning:, White Plains, N. Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1978. xiii + 299 pp., index. $22.50 pp. 78-81

John Michael Montias

Economic reform in East German industry: New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1979. xxv + 200 pp., index. $32- pp. 82-85

Paul Gregory

Technology, trade and the U. S. economy:, Washington, D. C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1978. xi + 169 pp., no index. $8.25 pp. 86-88

Philip Hanson

Money and finance in east and west:, ed., East-West European Economic Interaction Workshop Papers, Vol. 4. Vienna/New York: Springer-Verlag, 1978. 272 pp., no index. Austr. Sch. 408 or DM 59 pp. 89-91

Jozef M. van Brabant

The ideal worlds of economics:, New York: Basic Books, 1979. ix + 482 pp., index. $18.00, cloth pp. 92-93

Lloyd G. Reynolds

An econometric model of the East German economy:, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1977. 151 pp., no index, 12 Marks (DDR) pp. 94-95

Donald W. Green

ASEAN economies in perspective. A comparative study of Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, Singapore and Thailand:, Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1979. xiv + 217 pp., index. $15.- pp. 96-98

Kazushi Ohkawa

Volume 3, issue 4, 1979

Internal and external balance in a centrally planned economy pp. 325-345

Richard Portes

The impact of external economic disturbances on Yugoslavia: Theoretical and empirical explorations pp. 346-374

Laura DAndrea Tyson and Egon Neuberger

Team cohesion and collective-labor supply in Chinese agriculture pp. 375-394

Dennis L. Chinn

On managerial rewards and self-selection: Risk taking in public enterprises: A comment on A. Bergson, "Managerial risks and rewards in public enterprises" pp. 395-406

Estelle James, Egon Neuberger and Robert Willis

The problem of equity in determining managerial rewards in public enterprises: A comment on A. Bergson, "Managerial risks and rewards in public enterprises" pp. 407-415

Jeffrey Miller and Peter Murrell

Managerial risks and rewards in public enterprises: Rejoinder pp. 416-421

Abram Bergson

Going international: The experiences of smaller companies overseas:, New York: Wiley, 1979. vii + 247 pp., index. $25.00 pp. 422-422

Josef Brada

Volume 3, issue 3, 1979

Introduction pp. 205-206

David Conn

Socialism and incentives: Developing a framework pp. 207-216

Leonid Hurwicz

Performance incentives and planning under uncertainty pp. 217-232

Gregory G. Hildebrandt and Laura DAndrea Tysont

Comments pp. 232-234

Gary W. Yore

Information, motivation, and control in decentralized planning: the case of discretionary managerial behavior pp. 235-253

John P. Bonin and Alan Marcus

Comments pp. 253-257

David Granick

Comments pp. 257-260

J. M. Pogodzinski

A comparison of alternative incentive structures for centrally planned economic systems pp. 261-276

David Conn

On incentive structures of a socialist economy pp. 277-284

Mo-Yin Tam

Incentives, income sharing, and institutional innovation in the yugoslav self-managed firm pp. 285-301

Laura DAndrea Tyson

Comments pp. 301-303

Michael A. Conte

Income distribution and firm formation pp. 304-317

Elaine Bennett and Myrna Wooders

Incentives: A comparative perspective pp. 318-323

John Michael Montias

Volume 3, issue 2, 1979

Performance of decentralized and centralized decision-making mechanisms over a class of linear cases pp. 91-115

Antonio Camachoi

Notes on the production function in Soviet postwar industrial growth pp. 116-126

Abram Bergson

On the theory of the competitive labor-managed firm under price uncertainty pp. 127-144

Timothy R. Muzondo

Planning and coordination of economic policy in market economies pp. 145-166

Peter Murrell

Technology transfer to the USSR: An econometric analysis pp. 167-177

Martin Weitzman

Technology transfer to the USSR: A Reply pp. 178-180

Donald W. Green

Technology transfer to the USSR: The marginal-productivity differential and the elasticity of intra-capital substitution in Soviet industry pp. 181-194

Yasushi Toda

Growth patterns in the Kibbutz economy:, Amsterdam & New York: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1977. xix + 298 pp., index. $44.95, cloth, Dft, 110 pp. 195-196

Jaroslav Vanek

SOVMOD I: A macroeconomic model of the Soviet Union:, New York: Academic Press, 1977. xxii + 312 pp., index. $22.50, cloth pp. 197-199

Stanislav M. Menshikov

Javne finance in financni sistem SFRJ:,(Public Finance and the Financial system of SFR Yugoslavia), 2 volumes. Ljubljana: CGP Delo, TOZD Gospodarski vestnik, 1977. 891 pp pp. 200-201

Toussaint Hocevar

Comparative monetary economics: Capitalist and socialist monetary systems and their interrelations in the changing international scene:, New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. x + 270 pages, author & subject indexes. $18.95, cloth pp. 202-203

George Garvy

Volume 3, issue 1, 1979

The incentive effects of plan targets and priorities in a disaggregated model pp. 1-26

Michael Keren

Meade on indicative planning: A review of informational problems pp. 27-40

Jeffrey Miller

Team work and incentives: The origins and development of the butty gang system in Queensland's sugar industry, 1891-1913 pp. 41-55

Ralph Shlomowitz

The optimal linear alternative to price and quantity controls in the multifirm case pp. 56-65

Gordon Karp and Gary Yohe

Agricultural development in China and India: A comparative study:, New York: Halsted Press/John Wiley & Sons, 1977. 200 pp., index. Cloth, $7.95 pp. 66-69

Robert E. Evenson

Popular management and pay in China:, with an introduction by Sixto Roxas and Lloyd Reynolds. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 1977. xxii + 227 pp., index pp. 69-71

Stephen Andors

Internal migration: A comparative perspective:, eds., New York: Academic Press, 1977. xiv + 508 pp.; author and subject indexes. Cloth, $29.50 pp. 72-74

Robert Stuart

Economic policies compared: West and East:, ed., Vol. 1. General Theory, xxvi + 355 pp., index, Cloth, Dfl. 75.00 (paperback, Dfl. 45); Vol. 2. National and International Experiences, xxviii + 450 pp., index, Cloth, Dfl. 110.00. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1974, 1975 pp. 74-79

Gregory Grossman

La transition socialiste: La politique economique de gauche:, 212 pp. F45.-Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 1977 pp. 79-81

Goran Ohlin

Economie politique de la planification en systeme socialiste:, ed., Recherches Pantheon-Sorbonne, Serie: Sciences Economiques Etudes Internationales. Paris: Economica, 1978. 328 pp., no index pp. 81-83

Nicolas Spulber

Governmental controls and the free market; the U. S. economy in the 1970s:, ed., College Station, Texas, and London: Texas A & M University Press, 1976. 225 pp., no index. Cloth, $12.50 pp. 83-88

Peter Sturm