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The USSR Before the Fall: How Poor and Why

Author(s) -

Abram Bergson

Publication year - 1991

Publication title -

the journal of economic perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 9.614

H-Index - 196

eISSN - 1944-7965

pISSN - 0895-3309

DOI - 10.1257/jep.5.4.29

Subject(s) - communism , perspective (graphical) , fall of man , consumption (sociology) , political science , economic history , neoclassical economics , economics , political economy , positive economics , development economics , sociology , law , social science , politics , art , visual arts

This essay appraises the scholarly findings on the level of consumption and output in the USSR, compared with that in the West. Such aggregative calculations are onerous for any country, and not very surprisingly have encountered particular difficulty where such a strange society as Soviet communism has been in question. Predictably, the results have been controversial, but properly viewed they still provide illuminating perspective on the extraordinary events that have lately transpired in the USSR.

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