Open AccessSoviet Economic Law: The Paradox of Perestroyka
Author(s) -
Paul B. Stephan
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
the carl beck papers in russian and east european studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2163-839X
pISSN - 0889-275X
DOI - 10.5195/cbp.1990.44
Subject(s) - bureaucracy , production (economics) , state (computer science) , goods and services , law and economics , legal culture , business , political science , law , economics , market economy , politics , algorithm , computer science , macroeconomics
The current Soviet leadership wishes to transform the world's largestcentrally managed economy. It hopes through the perestroyka (reconstruction) campaign to diminish the economic bureaucracy, to create markets for production inputs and consumer goods and services, and to expand the role of primary production units, including private firms. Because it also seeks to supplant the present environment of administrative fiat with a developed legal culture, the leadership has memorialized these aspirations in the form of legal mandates issued by the appropriate organs of state authority.