Economic Efficiency and the Reform Potential of the Soviet Economy

苏联和西方学者越来越关注 苏联经济体系的效率潜力问题。 长期以来，人们一直认为和/或知道， 生产和分配安排妨碍效率，但 试图对这些现象进行严格的分类、分析和衡量 是最近的起源。 许多有价值的工作已经 已经完成，但仍有许多工作要做。 该研究项目的目的是继续过去的联合工作， 中央经济和数学研究所的合作者 位于莫斯科的苏联科学院。 它代表了第二个 一个五年的研究议程的第二阶段，苏联 研究团队也在努力。 本阶段涉及四个主要方面 分析方向：（1）完成一本专著《理论 苏联和苏联的经济效率及其衡量 （2）吸收美国的不同分支。 效率文献转化为现状报告， （3）评估苏联的经济效率; 苏联经济体系的效率潜力， 现有的理论和实证分析;（4）评估 戈尔巴乔夫从1970年开始推行改革的影响， 从系统效率潜力的角度。 该项目正在开发和应用的方法具有广泛的 在经济上的适用性。 合作的努力，其独特的 规模在这方面，应提供一个更好的正式图片， 苏联的经济安排，同时， 一些有影响力的苏联经济学家， 西方分析

Soviet and Western scholars have been devoting increasing attention to the question of the efficiency potential of the Soviet economic system. It has long been thought and/or known that that Soviet allocational, productive and distributive arrangements impede efficiency, but attempts to rigorously classify, analyze and measure these phenomena are of more recent origin. A good deal of valuable work has been accomplished, but much remains to be done. 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 (TsEMI) in Moscow. It represents the second year (Phase II) of a five-year research agenda, to which the Soviet research team also is committed. The current Phase involves four main directions of analysis: (1) to complete a monograph entitled Theory and Measurement of Economic Efficiency in the Soviet Union and the United States; (2) to assimilate the disparate strands of the efficiency literature into a status report on the analysis and measurement of Soviet economic efficiency; (3) to assess the efficiency potential of the Soviet economic system by extending existing theoretical and empirical analyses; and (4) 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, unique for its scale in this area, 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.