Paul R Gregory
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1055001 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Paul R Gregory |
| PRENOMES | Paul R |
| SOBRENOME | Gregory |
| ASSINATURA | GREGORY P R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Houston |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 96 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1972 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Ultimate Bolshevik
Ron Suny’s Stalin: Passage to Revolution traces Stalin from a young revolutionary in the Caucasus to his ascent to the top of the Bolshevik hierarchy. Discovered and promoted by Lenin, the young Stalin agitated among the workers of the giant factories in Baku, Tiflis, and Batumi as Russian socialists split between Menshevism’s social democracy and Bolshevism’s Marxist revolution. Between 1902 and 1917, Stalin was arrested or exiled six times, esc…
Kornai’s Overcentralization and naïve empiricism
How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and a Democracy . Anders Åslund
How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and a Democracy. Anders Åslund." Eurasian Geography and Economics, 50(5), pp. 606–607
The Soviet Agricultural Surplus
This article uses the transcripts of the Central Committee Plenums from December 1928 to November 1929 to re-evaluate James Millar's three propositions concerning collectivisation and the net agricultural surplus. It finds that the debate between Stalin and Bukharin was indeed consistent with Millar's analysis and it supplies new information on the role of markets, repression and primitive accumulation. I examine these questions against the backd…
Political economy of crime and punishment under Stalin
James R. Millar, 1936-2008
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The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy
Journal Article The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR from 1945 Get access The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR from 1945, by Philip Hanson (London: Longman, 2003; pp. 279. £19.99). Paul R Gregory Paul R Gregory University of Houston, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Issue 492, June 2006,…
Allocation under Dictatorship
We survey recent research on the Soviet economy in the state, party, and military archives of the Stalin era. The archives have provided rich new evidence on the economic arrangements of a command system under a powerful dictator including Stalin's role in the making of the economic system and economic policy, Stalin's accumulation objectives and the constraints that limited his power to achieve them, the limits to administrative allocation, the …
The Economics of Forced Labor. The Soviet Gulag
Until now, there has been little scholarly analysis of the Soviet Gulag as an economic, social, and political institution, primarily owing to a lack of data. This collection presents the results of years of research by Western and Russian scholars. The authors provide both broad overviews and specific case studies
Soviet Defence Puzzles
Protecting the Elderly
Lennart Samuelson, Plans for Stalin’s war machine
Lennart Samuelson has written a comprehensive account of Soviet military planning from the mid 1920s until the outbreak of the Second World War. He uses materials from the formerly secret archives to obtain a behind-the-scene’s view of the political economy of Soviet military planning. Samuelson’s book is the fourth significant book on the Soviet military economy published over the past six years (see Simonov, Barber and Harrison), providing the …
Dictator, Loyal, and Opportunistic Agents
Creating Soviet Industry
This article uses the Soviet state and party archives to describe the workings of a key Soviet economic institution and is designed to serve as a bridge between historical and economic research in the archives. Drawing on the archival records concerning the People's Commissariats for Heavy and Light Industry, Paul R. Gregory and Andrei Markevich examine how these commissariats interacted with both superiors and subordinates. The principal/agent c…
The wheels of a command economy
Using original archival sources, this article traces the allocation of vehicles by the Soviet economy and shows the complicated reality of the system's operation. 'Planned' distribution was anything but orderly as decrees overturned quarterly plans, wholesalers ignored planning instructions by keeping vehicles for themselves or redirecting them to others, and the producer intervened through its control of the planning 'aftermarket'. Existing stoc…
Central Planning and Unintended Consequences
We use the Soviet state and party archives to study the creation of the Soviet financial system. Although its framers intended to centralize all emission and monitoring of money and credit, in practice the system was characterized by informal mechanisms involving multiple players, soft budget constraints, and massive moral hazards. Enterprises issued “illegal” commercial credits and surrogate monies, causing liquidity growth to far outpace real e…
Central Planning and Unintended Consequences
We use the Soviet state and party archives to study the creation of the Soviet financial system. Although its framers intended to centralize all emission and monitoring of money and credit, in practice the system was characterized by informal mechanisms involving multiple players, soft budget constraints, and massive moral hazards. Enterprises issued "illegal" commercial credits and surrogate monies, causing liquidity growth to far outpace real e…
Do the Russians Really Save That Much?—Alternate Estimates from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey
We use a new independent survey of 4000 Russian households (the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey or RLMS) to study their saving behavior. The RLMS household saving rate (12%) is less than half the official figure (29%). Despite the massive changes of the transition, the Russian household saving rate of 1994 cannot be shown to be different from that of 1976. The patterns of Russian household saving differ from international experience: Its p…
Has Russia’s Transition Really Been Such a Failure
Affluent countries with strong institutions are rare in today’s world. Thus, we must judge Russia’s economic performance in reasonable terms, recognizing that the immense costs of more than sixty years of Soviet power cannot be reversed overnight
Searching for Consistency in Historical Data
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Sketches of New Russians
These sketches describe the energy and ingenuity of the New Russians, learning how to cope with a business environment that is much more complicated than that faced by our own entrepreneurs. If they can succeed under these conditions, their success under more normal conditions would be assured
Before Command
The Corporation under Russian Law, 1800-1917
Before Command
In a work with significant implications for present-day economic reform in the Soviet Union, Paul Gregory examines Russian and Soviet economic history prior to the installation of the administrative command system. By drawing on basic economic statistics from 1861 to the 1930s, Gregory's revisionist account debunks a number of myths promulgated by historians in both the East and the West. He demonstrates that the Russian economy under the tsars p…
An Economic History of Russia from Emancipation to the First Five-Year Plan
The Economics of Forced Labor. The Soviet Gulag
Until now, there has been little scholarly analysis of the Soviet Gulag as an economic, social, and political institution, primarily owing to a lack of data. This collection presents the results of years of research by Western and Russian scholars. The authors provide both broad overviews and specific case studies
Grain marketings and peasant consumption, Russia, 1885–1913
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy
Journal Article The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR from 1945 Get access The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR from 1945, by Philip Hanson (London: Longman, 2003; pp. 279. £19.99). Paul R Gregory Paul R Gregory University of Houston, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Issue 492, June 2006,…
Creating Soviet Industry
This article uses the Soviet state and party archives to describe the workings of a key Soviet economic institution and is designed to serve as a bridge between historical and economic research in the archives. Drawing on the archival records concerning the People's Commissariats for Heavy and Light Industry, Paul R. Gregory and Andrei Markevich examine how these commissariats interacted with both superiors and subordinates. The principal/agent c…
Dictator, Loyal, and Opportunistic Agents
Central Planning and Unintended Consequences
We use the Soviet state and party archives to study the creation of the Soviet financial system. Although its framers intended to centralize all emission and monitoring of money and credit, in practice the system was characterized by informal mechanisms involving multiple players, soft budget constraints, and massive moral hazards. Enterprises issued "illegal" commercial credits and surrogate monies, causing liquidity growth to far outpace real e…
Searching for Consistency in Historical Data
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Kornai’s Overcentralization and naïve empiricism
The wheels of a command economy
Using original archival sources, this article traces the allocation of vehicles by the Soviet economy and shows the complicated reality of the system's operation. 'Planned' distribution was anything but orderly as decrees overturned quarterly plans, wholesalers ignored planning instructions by keeping vehicles for themselves or redirecting them to others, and the producer intervened through its control of the planning 'aftermarket'. Existing stoc…
State Grain Purchases, Relative Prices, and the Soviet Grain Procurement Crisis
Economic growth, US defence expenditures and the Soviet defence budget
Political economy of crime and punishment under Stalin
Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy
In Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy, Paul R. Gregory takes an inside look at how the system worked and why it has traditionally been so resistant to change. Gregory's findings shed light on a bureaucracy that was widely considered the greatest threat to Gorbachev's efforts at perestroika, or restructuring. Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy is based on Soviet and Western published accounts as well as interviews with former…
The Russian Balance of Payments, the Gold Standard, and Monetary Policy
This paper reports new calculations of foreign investment in Russia between 1881 and 1913. As the major recipient of foreign capital under the gold standard, Russia provides an ideal case study of capital flows among countries. The conclusions are that the influx of foreign investment into Russia following convertibility was much more substantial than the early estimates suggested and that the Russian growth rate was raised by about 0.5 percent a…
Some Empirical Comments on the Theory of Relative Backwardness
A Model of Soviet Rural-Urban Migration
The Soviet Agricultural Surplus
This article uses the transcripts of the Central Committee Plenums from December 1928 to November 1929 to re-evaluate James Millar's three propositions concerning collectivisation and the net agricultural surplus. It finds that the debate between Stalin and Bukharin was indeed consistent with Millar's analysis and it supplies new information on the role of markets, repression and primitive accumulation. I examine these questions against the backd…
Soviet Defence Puzzles
Agricultural Surplus Models and Peasant Behavior
Soviet bureaucratic behaviour
The Plow, the Hammer, and the Knout
A Note on Russia's Merchandise Balance and Balance of Payments During the Industrialization Era
Russia's balance of trade (torgovyi balans) and balance of payments (raschetnyi balans) were matters of great concern to the tsarist government before and after the introduction of the gold standard in 1897. Tsarist officials feared that the gold reserves required to maintain (or to go on) the gold standard would be lost if payments abroad exceeded receipts. Moreover, there was concern over the potential loss of political and economic independenc…
Similar societies under differing economic systems
(1977). Similar societies under differing economic systems: The case of the two Germanys. Soviet Studies: Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 519-542
Fertility Interactions and Modernization Turning Points
Russian Monetary Policy and Industrialization, 1861-1913
Some recent critics of Russian industrial policy argue that the costs of the Witte System may have been excessive relative to its benefits and that similar rates (or perhaps higher rates) of industrial growth could have been attained if alternate fiscal and monetary policies had been adopted. Once differential rates of growth of prices and real national income are considered, it appears that the Russian money supply was not unduly constrained. Th…
A Simultaneous Equation Model of Birth Rates in the United States
Paul R. Gregory, John M. Campbell, Benjamin S. Cheng, A Simultaneous Equation Model of Birth Rates in the United States, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 54, No. 4 (Nov., 1972), pp. 374-380
Economic growth and structural change in Tsarist Russia
(1972). Economic growth and structural change in Tsarist Russia: A case of modern economic growth? Soviet Studies: Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 418-434
Socialist and Nonsocialist Industrialization Patterns
Differences in fertility determinants
This study estimates two separate fertility models for developed and underdeveloped countries to determine if they are the same. The model differs from past studies in two respects: (1) a simultaneous equation model is used, and (2) an opportunity cost of fertility is included in the fertility equation. When this more complete model of fertility is used, the sets of regression coefficients of the fertility equations of developed and developing co…
Secular and Cross-Section Industrialization Patterns
INFORMATION on patterns of structural change during modern economic growth is summarized in Kuznets (1967 and 1971). The use of secular data to identify such patterns, however, must be limited, for relatively few countries have compiled suitable long-term records. Thus, attention has focused upon an alternative data source, namely, intercountry data for evidence on past and future trends in industrial structure (Temin, 1967; Kuznets, 1967, pp. 43…
Reply to Franz Walter
Economic growth, US defence expenditures and the Soviet defence budget
Some Empirical Comments on the Theory of Relative Backwardness
Some indirect estimates of Eastern European capital stocks and factor productivity
Fertility Interactions and Modernization Turning Points
Russian Monetary Policy and Industrialization, 1861-1913
Some recent critics of Russian industrial policy argue that the costs of the Witte System may have been excessive relative to its benefits and that similar rates (or perhaps higher rates) of industrial growth could have been attained if alternate fiscal and monetary policies had been adopted. Once differential rates of growth of prices and real national income are considered, it appears that the Russian money supply was not unduly constrained. Th…
The Russian Industrialization Experience
Similar societies under differing economic systems
(1977). Similar societies under differing economic systems: The case of the two Germanys. Soviet Studies: Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 519-542
A Model of Soviet Rural-Urban Migration
The Russian Balance of Payments, the Gold Standard, and Monetary Policy
This paper reports new calculations of foreign investment in Russia between 1881 and 1913. As the major recipient of foreign capital under the gold standard, Russia provides an ideal case study of capital flows among countries. The conclusions are that the influx of foreign investment into Russia following convertibility was much more substantial than the early estimates suggested and that the Russian growth rate was raised by about 0.5 percent a…
A Note on Russia's Merchandise Balance and Balance of Payments During the Industrialization Era
Russia's balance of trade (torgovyi balans) and balance of payments (raschetnyi balans) were matters of great concern to the tsarist government before and after the introduction of the gold standard in 1897. Tsarist officials feared that the gold reserves required to maintain (or to go on) the gold standard would be lost if payments abroad exceeded receipts. Moreover, there was concern over the potential loss of political and economic independenc…
Grain marketings and peasant consumption, Russia, 1885–1913
Valueless Goods and Social Bads in the Measurement of Soviet Output Series, 1928-1932
Professor Rosefielde has supplied a controversial reassessment of the First Five- Year Plan. My comments will perhaps be disappointingly narrow, for I shall not comment on Rosefielde's claim that the growth of heavy industry during the First Five-Year Plan was based to a surprising degree on the expansion of the GULag economy. This assertion ultimately depends upon Rosefielde's estimates of the GULag labor force. Other participants in this forum,…
Fertility and Labor Force Participation in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
This discussion begins with a review of the basic features of the Western neoclassical models of human capital and fertility and their counterparts that are employed in this study. This contrasts leads to the conclusion that the Western and Eastern models (in their contemporary forms) are basically identical. The agreement on the theoretical foundations of human capital analysis is bolstered by substantial agreement in the empirical results. The …
Deutsch-Sowjetische Wirtschaftsbeziehungen in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik
Russian National Income, 1885-1913
Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the USSR
Politics, work, and daily life in the USSR is designed to illustrate how the Soviet social system really works and how the Soviet people cope with it. This study is based on the first comprehensive survey of life in the USSR since the Harvard Project over thiry-three years ago. The essays contained analyze the variations in attitude and behaviour reflected in the findings of the Soviet Interview Project, a five-year investigation of contemporary …
Assessing Baltic living standards using objective and subjective measures
Entrepreneurship in Russia
The Plow, the Hammer, and the Knout
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