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I'm looking high and low for the formulas used by the Soviet Union for determining prices. They were a "state secret" and never released.
It was actually a huge academic field to try and model the Soviet Union economy because of this.
Does anyone know where the formulas used by the Soviet State Planners can be found?
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Other than in the Russian archives, I don't know. However, I think you already know of some of the other "State Committees" besides the poster boy Gosplan (Gossnab for Material-Technical Supply, Goskomtsen for Prices), so look for more out of those non-Gosplan organizations.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Gbs9Efask...d1FL0#PPA113,M1
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I just found a wealth of literature, but I have a final tomorrow at 8 AM, so I'm going to sleep instead of post the references. Tomorrow after the final, I'll post the references.
TragicClown: "i'm not though...i'm how like, every conservative christian father would want their daughter to behave"
Intelligitimate: "The bible has gang-rape in it...I like the Bible."
"The right to enslave is a positive right." - Tungsten
"The hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill society with the industrial capitalist." Karl Marx
People who cheated me out of a mathematical proof: Jazzremington, Severian, Che y Marijuana
I believe Trotsky explained a part of it here:
The Principal Indices of Industrial Growth, Comparative Estimates of These Achievements, Production per capita of the Population
“Military Communism”, the “New Economic Policy” (NEP) and the Course Toward the Kulak, Sharp Turn: “Five-year Plan in Four Years” and “Complete Collectivization”
There's a lot of economic data there from the 20's and 30's, so they could be of use to you.
That may have been the rough outlines of how the USSR worked, but I'm looking for the specific formulas that the planners used.
After looking around, it turns out the USSR's so-called "command economy" wasn't as centralized as previously imagined starting in 1928 with the five year plans.
I've got mixed feelings about the economic data, because it turned out to be largely exaggerated.
As for my references I promised...well, here is the list:
Harrison, Mark (1998). "Prices, Planners, and Producers: An Agency Problem in Soviet Industry, 1928-1950." Journal of Economic History, 58(4), 103-162.
Harrison, Mark (2000). "Soviet Industrial Production, 1928 to 1955: Real Growth and Hidden Inflation." Journal of Comparative Economics, 28(1), 135-55.
Harrison, Mark and Nikolai Simonov (2000). "Voenpriemka: Prices, Costs, and Quality in Defence Industry." In Mark Harrison and John Barber, eds. The Soviet Defence Industry Complex from Stalin to Kruschev, London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 223-245.
Almost everything in Paul R. Gregory's Behind the Facade of Stalin's Command Economy, Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press. This book actually contains a lot of analysis from the Soviet Archives.
Belova, Eugenia (2001). "Contract Enforcement Under Dictatorship: the Case of the Soviet Economy." PERSA Working Paper no. 14, University of Warwick, Department of Economics.
Kroll, Heidi (1986) "Decentralization and Precontract Disputes in Soviet Industry." Soviet Economy, 2(1), 51-71.
Belova, Eugenia, and Paul R. Gregory (2002). "Dictators, Loyal and Opportunistic Agents: the Soviet Archives on Creating the Soviet Economic System." Public Choice, 113(3-4), 265-286.
Kim, Byung-Yeon (2002). "Causes of Repressed Inflation in the Soviet Consumer Market: Retail Price Subsidies, the Siphoning Effect, and the Budget Deficit." Economic History Review, 55(1), 105-127.
Gregory, Paul R. (1990). Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
TragicClown: "i'm not though...i'm how like, every conservative christian father would want their daughter to behave"
Intelligitimate: "The bible has gang-rape in it...I like the Bible."
"The right to enslave is a positive right." - Tungsten
"The hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill society with the industrial capitalist." Karl Marx
People who cheated me out of a mathematical proof: Jazzremington, Severian, Che y Marijuana
Well if you really want these details, and have plenty of cash on hand, then you can probably be relatively certain that they'd be found within Matekon - the official journal of the Soviet planners. Unfortunately that link that I gave is the only set of English translations that I know of (albeit I haven't done much searching) and it costs a small fortune for the full collection.
Other than that, Zauberman's "Aspects of Planometrics" seems to be the standard Western work on Soviet planning mechanisms. I doubt that he'd have any official formulas but pricing would have to get a mention somewhere.
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