The East European Economies in the 1970s

AcknowledgmentsForewordContributors1 Economic Reform in the 1970s-Policy with no Alternative 1.1 The Road to Reform 1.2 The Retreat from Reform 1.3 Why no More Extensive Reform?2 USSR: Economic Policy and Methods after 1970 2.1 Survey of Policy, Methods and Performance in the Last Decade 2.2 Fundamental Defects of the Centralized Planning System 2.3 New Attempts at Reform3 The GDR-Economic Policy Caught between Pressure for Efficiency and Lack of Ideas 3.1 From Indirect Steering to Direct Control 3.2 Aims, Methods and Instruments of Recentralization 3.3 Between Excessive Bureaucracy and Lack of Efficiency4 Aims, Methods and Political Determinants of the Economic Policy of Poland 1970-1980 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Development 1971-1975 4.3 Factors of Development in 1971-1975 4.4 Growing Tensions in the Economy 4.5 Economic Reform 4.6 1976-1980: Plans and Results5 Aims and Methods of Economic Policy in Czechoslovakia 1970-1978 5.1 The Aims of Economic Policy in the 1970s 5.2 Ways and Means of Economic Policy in the 1970s 5.3 Economic Growth and Efficiency 5.4 Conclusion6 Problems and Trends in the Development of the Hungarian New Economic Mechanism: A Balance Sheet of the 1970s 6.1 Centralization, Decentralization, Recentralization-A Survey of the Changes in the Hungarian Economic Order 6.2 Problems of Functioning and Revisions of Instruments in the 1970s 6.3 Ten Years of the New Economic Mechanism-An Attempt at a Balance Sheet 6.4 Revision of Strategy for the 1980s7 Economic Development and Planning in Bulgaria in the 1970s 7.1 Aspects of Economic Development at the Threshold of the 1970s 7.2 Performance in the 1970s 7.3 Technical Progress and Foreign Trade 7.4 Agriculture 7.5 Living Standards and Conditions 7.6 The System of Planning and Management 7.7 Impetus for and Resistance to Change 7.8 Statistical Appendix8 Economic Reform in Romania in the 1970s 8.1 Publications on the Romanian System 8.2 The Period between Reforms, 1972-1978 8.3 The 'New Economic Mechanism' and Its Implementation, 1978-19809 Objectives and Methods of Economic Policies in Yugoslavia, 1970-1980 9.1 Introduction 9.2 The Economic Objectives of the Yugoslav Revolution 9.3 The Yugoslav Economy in the 1970s 9.4 Prospects for the Future10 The Economic System of Albania in the 1970s: Developments and Problems 10.1 Conservative Radicalism 10.2 Genesis of the Present System 10.3 The Adaptations of 1970 10.4 Incentives 10.5 Agricultural Organization 10.6 Sharp Disputes on Economic Policy, 1974-1976Index