Research Catalog

Title

Soviet central decisionmaking and economic growth : a summing up / Abraham S. Becker.

Author

Becker, Abraham S. (Abraham Samuel), 1927-2003

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand, [1986]

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Details

Additional Authors

• United States. Air Force
• Rand Corporation.

Description

xi, 53 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This report summarizes important characteristics of Soviet economic decisionmaking, examines Soviet prospects for economic growth under Gorbachev, and draws some policy implications for the United States. The author suggests that military development pressure is the most reliable U.S. bargaining tool, but cautions that its validity depends on continuation of Soviet economic stringencies and a Soviet belief that the U.S. threat can be rendered manageable. Therefore, U.S. military pressure should be balanced by a readiness to define conditions of strategic parity and to reach workable agreements translating such criteria into reality."--Rand Abstracts.

Subject

• 1981-1985
• Central planning > Soviet Union
• Soviet Union > Economic policy > 1981-1985

Note

• "A Project Air Force report prepared for the United States Air Force."
• "January 1986."
• "R-3349-AF."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0833007092 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^86003891^

OCLC

• 13329919
• SCSB-10938310

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library