The Nature of Socialist Economics : : Lessons from Eastern European Foreign Trade / / Peter Murrell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Murrell, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1061
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)

What are the sources of the well-known differences in the performance of capitalist and socialist economic systems? Peter Murrell argues that the Schumpeterian model has far more power to answer this question than does the neoclassical theory generally used for that purpose. The neoclassical theory...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgments
• CHAPTER 1. An Overview of the Research, the Theories Underlying the Interpretation of the Results, and the Conclusions
• CHAPTER 2. The Variables Used in the Analysis: Their Properties and Sources of Data
• CHAPTER 3. International Trade Theory and the Centrally Planned Economies
• CHAPTER 4. Qualitative Information on Nonstandard Trade Determinants: Summary Statistics from Trade Data
• CHAPTER 5. The Econometrics of Estimating Endowments Implicit in Trade Decisions and Measuring Country Conformity to Trade Models
• CHAPTER 6. The Levels of Resource Endowments Implicit in Eastern European Trade Patterns: Estimates for Eleven Endowments
• CHAPTER 7. Measuring How Closely the Trade Patterns of Socialist and Capitalist Economies Fit Standard Trade Models
• EPILOGUE: The Results and Some Questions They Raise
• APPENDIX A: Do RCAs Reveal Comparative Advantage?
• APPENDIX B: Derivation of Equations Representing Trade Models
• APPENDIX C: Interpreting the Values of RCAs in the Presence of Intraindustry Trade
• APPENDIX D: Interpreting the Estimates in the Presence of Missing Data
• References
• Index