Mon Mar 20 09:57:35 EST 2000
Please may I draw to your attention two working papers available
on the web; comments are welcome. The core of the two papers is
the same; differences are noted as follows.
"Coercion, compliance, and the collapse of the Soviet command
economy", available from
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/staff/Mark.Harrison/research/Coercion.pdf
(7,500 words, some maths)
"Are command economies unstable? Why did the Soviet economy
collapse?", available from
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/staff/Mark.Harrison/research/Collapse.pdf
(4,500 words, non-technical treatment using diagrams, omits
discussion of time-consistency and credible-commitment issues
found in the longer paper).
"Stabil'nye li komandnye sistemy? Pochemu poterpela krakh
sovetskaia ekonomika?", available from
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/staff/Mark.Harrison/research/Kollaps.pdf
(same as the previous paper, slightly revised and translated into
Russian)
With best wishes.
Mark Harrison
Professor Mark Harrison
Department of Economics
University of Warwick
Coventry, England CV4 7AL
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+44 (0)24 7652 3032 (fax)