Unearthing a Possible Root Cause of Soviet Economic Disintegration

R-C Harmstone and J-F Patackas

Working Papers from Pennsylvania State - Department of Economics

Abstract: Among the many outstanding accomplishments of economic Sovvietologists was the deflation of the egregiously inflated official Soviet statistics on economic growth. In sharp contrast, some authoritative Western scholars attempted to inflate official Soviet statistics on replacement. This paper seeks to show that these efforts were generally misguided and to assess, the significance of such inflation for Western scholarship on the Soviet economy.

Keywords: USSR; INFLATION; ECONOMIC GROWTH (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E31 O4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 1996
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