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The Deployment of Human Resources for Development: The East European Experience, 1953–75

In: Human Resources, Employment and Development

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  • Michael Kaser

    (Oxford University, United Kingdom)

  • Rudolf Notel

    (Oxford University, United Kingdom)

Abstract

This paper presents the first results of the quantitative analysis of East European economic growth under varied forms of socialist planning (workers’ self-management in Yugoslavia, decentralised enterprise administration in Hungary, and central planning in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Poland and Romania).1 It is self-evident that the choice of the seven countries is of a set which underwent a socio-economic transformation on the eve of the period studied and which maintained the system then embraced throughout the period. In the case of Yugoslavia, a system of worker self-management was introduced in 1950 and all the other countries were operating almost identical planning mechanisms. A standard text on the subject describes the situation as follows:

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  • Michael Kaser & Rudolf Notel, 1983. "The Deployment of Human Resources for Development: The East European Experience, 1953–75," International Economic Association Series, in: Burton Weisbrod & Helen Hughes (ed.), Human Resources, Employment and Development, chapter 5, pages 74-83, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-22741-9_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22741-9_5
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