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Prices, planners, and producers : an agency problem in Soviet industry, 1928-1950
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Harrison, Mark (1998) Prices, planners, and producers : an agency problem in Soviet industry, 1928-1950. Journal of Economic History, Vol.58 (No.4). pp. 1032-1062. ISSN 0022-0507.
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Abstract
Soviet planners developed the “unchanged prices of 1926/27” to facilitate the solution of an
agency problem -- the regulation of self-interested producers as they worked to fulfil plans for
heterogeneous products denominated in rubles. The system limited but did not eliminate
producers’ opportunistic behavior, which took the form of inflating the plan prices of new
products. Through the 1930s and 1940s the “unchanged” prices proved resistant to reform,
and following their abolition in 1950 the system was soon afterwards reinstated with a new
base year. The history of the “unchanged” prices illustrates the limits of command.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Soviet Union -- Economic conditions -- 20th century, Price fixing -- Soviet Union | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Economic History | ||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||
ISSN: | 0022-0507 | ||||
Official Date: | 25 September 1998 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.58 | ||||
Number: | No.4 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 1032-1062 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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