Suchergebnisse

1 An Overview: The Bureaucracy and the Plan -- The Foreign Trade Bureaucracies -- Foreign Trade Planning -- 2 The Party and the Government -- The Communist Party -- The National Government -- Motivations of the Political Leadership -- 3 The Central Planning Agencies -- The State Planning Committee (Gosplan) -- The State Committee for Material and Technical Supply (Gossnab) -- The State Committee for Science and Technology -- The Ministry of Finance and the State Bank -- The State Price Committee -- 4 The Foreign Trade and Industrial Ministries -- The Ministry of Foreign Trade -- The Industrial Ministries -- 5 Cost-Benefit Analysis for Foreign Trade -- Foreign Trade Efficiency Indices: A Brief History -- Efficiency Indices for Simple Commodity Trade -- Inadequacies of Domestic Prices -- Replacement of Prices with Full-Cost Indices -- Advantages of Wholesale Prices over Full-Cost Indices -- Special Problems of Import Valuation -- Efficiency Indices for Specialization Agreements -- Efficiency Indices for Credit Deliveries -- Efficiency Indices for Compensation Agreements -- Efficiency Indices for Trade in Licenses -- Practical Application of Efficiency Indices -- 6 Foreign Trade Optimization Models -- The Trzeciakowski Model -- Shagalov's Basic Model -- Dynamic Models -- Interregional Models -- Models of Socialist Economic Integration -- Branch Models -- 7 Empirical Analyses of Soviet Foreign Trade Decision Making -- The Commodity Structure of Soviet Foreign Trade -- The Traditional View -- Fundamental Comparative Advantage -- Cross-Sectional Commodity Studies -- 8 Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- References.