Socialist Investment Cycles

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction and Summary of Main Points

   • Peter Mihályi

   Pages 1-8

3. General Framework

   • Peter Mihályi

   Pages 9-46

4. Three Schools of Thought

   • Peter Mihályi

   Pages 47-108

5. Measurement of Investment Fluctuations

   • Peter Mihályi

   Pages 109-147

6. Common Patterns and Particularities — A Historical Analysis

   • Peter Mihályi

   Pages 148-166

7. Closing Remarks on Measurement and Control

   • Peter Mihályi

   Pages 167-174

8. Back Matter

   Pages 175-236

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by Peter J. D. Wiles Professor Emeritus University of London There are two sorts of writers of prefaces: the obliging and the disobliging. Surely Peter MiMlyi knows where to place me in this taxonomy. For the most part I write my own irrelevant opinions, but there was one act of gross interference: my insistence on a point he had already quietly made, the greater stability of the production of consumer goods under Communism even of food, if we exclude bad harvests. The many Marxist and some other scholars who wrote about Dr. Mih

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`The methodological approach presented in this book is clear and interesting and the book deserves to be recommended to economists and students.'
Economics of Planning, 27, 1994

• United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva, Switzerland

  Peter Mihályi

• Institute of Economics of The Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

  Peter Mihályi

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