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Is Within-system Reform Possible?

In: Studies in Economics and Russia

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  • Alec Nove

    (University of Glasgow)

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Six years ago (in 1979) I wrote a piece, entitled ‘The economic problems of Brezhnev’s successors’, which appeared in the Washington Papers (published by the CSIS of Georgetown University). This took the form of an imaginary report of an imaginary committee, which had been (in my imagination) set up to recommend reform. In all countries, the powers-that-be tend to appoint committees which will give them the advice they want to hear. So it would have been improbable, to say the least, for Brezhnev to have appointed ‘my’ committee, which represented what might for short be called the Novosibirsk view, and was presided over by Academician Aganbegyan, known to favour fundamental change. Despite Brezhnev’s quite explicit recognition that ‘in the age of scientific-technical revolution, basic changes in our methods of economic management are essential’, as he told the last party congress but one, the prevailing policy was one of cautious drift.

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  • Alec Nove, 1990. "Is Within-system Reform Possible?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Studies in Economics and Russia, chapter 23, pages 340-354, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-10991-3_23
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10991-3_23
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