Conclusion

Igor Birman

Chapter 13 in Personal Consumption in the USSR and the USA, 1989, pp 153-167 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The major conclusions have already been stated, and here I will only repeat them briefly. The CIA study gives unique and priceless material for the analysis and further discussion of the problem. Without any exaggeration, its publication establishes a quantitatively new stage in the study of this problem — instead of general arguments and conjectures we can operate with concrete figures. Before a careful study of this work I could not justifiably quantify my own opinion about the extent of the Soviet lag. Having publicly stated a couple of years ago that Soviet consumption lags behind American by 4–5 times,1 I more or less hit the mark, but this was intuition; now I can defend my estimate with facts and numbers.

Keywords: Durable Good; High Educational Institution; Trade Service; Personal Consumption; American Consumer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10349-2_13

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