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Coercion, compliance, and the collapse of the Soviet command economy

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The Soviet economy began to collapse in 1990. As Figure 1 suggests, the suddenness with which it did so can scarcely be overstated. After rapid, but turbulent, economic growth under Stalin the post-war years saw nearly half a century of rarely interrupted growth. Then, Soviet real incomes fell by one third in four years. After that they fell more slowly, and during most of the 1990s incomes in Russia remained two fifths below the peak of 1989. In the middle years of the decade two fifths of the population of the Russian Federation, nearly 60 million people, lived below the official poverty line compared with two percent in the late 1980s (Ellman, 2000a: 126)…
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  • Mark Harrison, 2002. "Coercion, compliance, and the collapse of the Soviet command economy," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 55(3), pages 397-433, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ehsrev:v:55:y:2002:i:3:p:397-433
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    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • P21 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Planning, Coordination, and Reform

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