The modeling the conflict between gold and the sword Hildebrandt, Gregory G. creator author. Staugaard, Peter B. author. National Defense Research Institute (U.S.) International Economic Policy Program. Rand Corporation United States Department of Defense. Director of Net Assessment. text bibliography cau 1991 monographic eng

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xiii, 68 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm Part of a larger study designed to develop new methods and models for analyzing the Soviet economy that are linked more closely than are existing models to certain key characteristics of the Soviet system, this Note investigates Soviet decisionmaking during plan implementation using a prototype input-output model. It characterizes the conflict between the exogenous priority system that is specified by the leadership and the endogenous priority system that emerges from the structure of an interdependent economy. In general, the authors find that a shock in any sector causes unemployed resources in the nonpriority sector of the priority model. Also, final output in this model is always less than or equal to that obtained in the marginalist model. Gregory G. Hildebrandt, Peter B. Staugaard. This Research was "carried out within RAND's National Defense Research Institute"--Preface. Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-68). Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format. e-ur--- Soviet Union Economic conditions 1985-1991 Econometric models Soviet Union Economic policy 1986-1991 Econometric models HC336.26 .H54 1991 0833018221 http://www.rand.org/pubs/notes/N2840/ http://www.rand.org/pubs/notes/N2840/ CstmoR 920212 rnd000000000048408