Comprises 15 contributions which resulted from a long term research project that began in the late 1970s and sought to assess the comparative production potential and efficiency of the Soviet socialist economy and its Western market rivals using stochastic production frontiers and other methods. The contributors suggest that Soviet economic performance and efficiency were far poorer than previously thought and that the causes of these deficiencies persist despite significant changes in the post-Soviet economic system. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
