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The union of Western Europe poses many complex and technical obstacles. Analysing the advantages as well as the difficulties, the book discusses competition and the nature and direction of the increased pressures it brings to bear upon entrepreneurial activity, through which the effects of economic union will mostly be felt

Contributed articles presented at the 13th conference of Indian Political Economy Association held at Punjabi University, Patiala

Main description: Could the USSR have been prepared for World War II more humanely and efficiently? In this first integrated evaluation of Stalin's economic goals and actions, Holland Hunter and Janusz Szyrmer reconstruct and test Soviet results annually and by sector. Addressing historians, political scientists, and economists, the authors build a new, internally consistent, twelve-sector annual record of output and capital growth (assembling and reconciling Western reconstructions of Soviet data) to assess Soviet policy and test how alternative policies might have worked. They point out lessons from the 1930s that can be applied today. The authors analyze the basic steps marking the prewar Soviet drive: agricultural collectivization, head-long investment in heavy industry, autarkic foreign trade, and rearmament. They conclude that the economy's growth potential was misused, that collectivization was a mistake, and that with a slower drive to build heavy industry, living standards could have been higher throughout the 1930s while the ability to withstand invasion would have been stronger. A related implication for the 1990s is that correct prices, small-scale production, and individual initiative are key requirements for an effective Soviet economy.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

While the rapid growth of the Korean economy has been extensively researched, relatively little attention has been paid the environmental consequences. The first part of the papaer reviewed the evidence on the relationship between economic growth and the state of the environment within the context of the interdependence between the three economic spheres. The latter part of paper identified the environmental implications of economic growth for Korea. Based on the environmental Kuznet's Curve(EKC) test, Korean economy during the past decades appears to be broadly consistent with a positive pattern of interaction between economic growth, industrialization and the environment. Even if economic growth in Korea contributes to slightly positive structural and technological effects that offset the negative scale effects of local air pollutants, economic growth does not address the cumulative effects of pollution. In this context, Korea needs a policy for structural and technological changes that "dematerialization" and "depollute" economic activities. Such a policy will induce profound changes in the energy intensity industrial structure.