Soviet central decisionmaking and economic growth
Subtitle: a summing up
By: Abraham S. Becker.
Contributors: United States. Air Force.; Rand Corporation.
Publisher: Rand
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Santa Monica, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 53
Subjects: Central planning -- Soviet Union.; Soviet Union -- Economic policy -- 1981-1985.
Description: "This report summarizes important characteristics of Soviet economic decisionmaking, examines Soviet prospects for economic growth under Gorbachev, and draws some policy implications for the United States. The author suggests that military development pressure is the most reliable U.S. bargaining tool, but cautions that its validity depends on continuation of Soviet economic stringencies and a Soviet belief that the U.S. threat can be rendered manageable. Therefore, U.S. military pressure should be balanced by a readiness to define conditions of strategic parity and to reach workable agreements translating such criteria into reality."--Rand Abstracts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"A Project Air Force report prepared for the United States Air Force."
"January 1986."
"R-3349-AF."