Economic Efficiency and the Reform Potential of the Soviet Economy

Lovell这个研究项目的目的是继续过去与莫斯科苏联科学院中央经济和数学研究所的合作者的合作。这项研究涉及三个主要的分析方向：(1)将不同的效率文献(主要是西方的)吸收到一份关于苏联经济效率测量和分析的现状报告中；(2)通过扩展现有的理论和经验分析来评估苏联经济体系的效率潜力；以及(3)从制度效率潜力的角度评估戈尔巴乔夫正在进行的改革的影响。本项目正在开发和应用的方法论在经济学上具有广泛的适用性。这种合作努力应该会提供一幅关于新兴苏联经济安排的更好的正式图景，同时让一些有影响力的苏联经济学家了解西方最先进的分析。

Lovell The purpose of this research project is to continue past joint work with collaborators at the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow. The research involves three main directions of analysis: (1) to assimilate the disparate strands of the (primarily Western) efficiency literature into a status report on the measurement and analysis of Soviet economic efficiency; (2) to assess the efficiency potential of the Soviet economic system by extending existing theoretical and empirical analysis; and (3) to evaluate the implications of Gorbachev's unfolding reforms from the standpoint of the efficiency potential of the system. The methodology being developed and applied in this project has broad applicability in economics. The collaborative effort should provide a better formal picture of the emerging Soviet economic arrangements, at the same time that it acquaints some influential Soviet economists with state-of-the-art Western analysis.