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The Political Economy of a Soviet Military R&D Failure: Steam Power for Aviation, 1932–1939

In: THE ECONOMICS OF COERCION AND CONFLICT

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The Soviet economy was managed by a vertical hierarchy in which agents supplied principals with flows of information from below and principals issued commands from above. Commands flowed downward, but the more closely we study this system the more we find that self–interested agents rarely did exactly as they were told. They ignored some orders, exceeded others, and did many things that were not ordered at all. Information flowed upwards but the most difficult problem for those who received it was to verify exactly what people were really doing when they appeared to be obeying commands…

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  • Mark Harrison, 2014. "The Political Economy of a Soviet Military R&D Failure: Steam Power for Aviation, 1932–1939," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: THE ECONOMICS OF COERCION AND CONFLICT, chapter 9, pages 261-302, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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    1. Baxter, David & Trott, Paul & Ellwood, Paul, 2023. "Reconceptualising innovation failure," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 52(7).

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