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What Did the Study of the Soviet Economy Contribute to Mainstream Economics?

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  • Michael Ellman

    ([1] Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam, Plantage Muidergracht 12, 1018 TV Amsterdam, Netherlands. [2] Tinbergen Institute, The University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.)

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This paper is an overview of the contributions made by economic Sovietology to mainstream economics. The long debate about the universal applicability of mainstream economics is reconsidered in the light of Soviet experience. Information is provided on the contribution of the study of the Soviet economy to the fields as diverse as the measurement of economic growth, institutional economics, economic administration, the economics of property rights, the economics of the informal sector, the economics of famines, the Austrian critique of general equilibrium theory, and incentives. The implications for economic methodology are also considered. Comparative Economic Studies (2009) 51, 1–19. doi:10.1057/ces.2008.42

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  • Michael Ellman, 2009. "What Did the Study of the Soviet Economy Contribute to Mainstream Economics?," Comparative Economic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Association for Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 51(1), pages 1-19, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:compes:v:51:y:2009:i:1:p:1-19
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    1. Guinevere Nell, 2011. "Bridging Austrian and Market Socialist Economics," Challenge, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(4), pages 50-64.
    2. Josef C. Brada & Paul Wachtel, 2018. "Comparative Economic Studies and Comparative Economics: Six Decades and Counting," Comparative Economic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Association for Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 60(4), pages 638-656, December.
    3. Voskoboynikov, Ilya B., 2012. "New measures of output, labour and capital in industries of the Russian economy," GGDC Research Memorandum GD-123, Groningen Growth and Development Centre, University of Groningen.
    4. Csaba, László, 2009. "A szovjetológiától az új intézményi közgazdaságtanig - töprengések két évtized távlatából [From Sovietology to the new institutional economics - meditations from a distance of two decades]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(9), pages 749-768.
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    6. Ilya B. Voskoboynikov, 2021. "Accounting for growth in the USSR and Russia, 1950–2012," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 35(3), pages 870-894, July.
    7. Csaba, László, 2011. "Milyen a jó közgazdaságtan? Töprengések Wagener könyve kapcsán. Hans-Jürgen Wagener: Wirtschaftsordnung im Wandel. Zur Transformation, 1985-2010. Metropolis Verlag, Marburg, 2011, 286 o [What is go," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(5), pages 477-482.

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