Investment Priorities in Soviet Regions

Bibliographic Data

ID8375468
AuthorsLeslie Dienes (University of Kansas, corresponding author)
Year1972
Volume62
Issue3
Pages437-454
Publication date1972-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-8306.1972.tb00877.x
OpenAlexW2146804679
LanguageEN
Citations received8

The rate of capital return and marginal capital product in Soviet industry are estimated by geographic areas to discover whether the regional allocation of investment, particularly industrial capital, in the 1960s was guided by considerations of capital and labor productivity or by other motives. The underindustrialized western regions, where capital and labor productivity are satisfactory or high, have been slighted in favor of more easterly provinces. Regional investment allocation in recent years has been a subject of considerable disagreement. Proposals for regional specialization and large-scale projects for the exploitation of natural resources tend to divide Soviet scholars into pro-Siberian and pro-European factions. KEY WORDS: Capital productivityEconomic developmentIndustrial developmentLabor productivityRegional investmentSoviet Union

Capital (architecture) · Capital investment · Distribution (mathematics) · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Geography · Investment (military) · Macroeconomics · Marginal product · Natural resource · Political science · Product (mathematics) · Production (economics) · Productivity · Scale (ratio) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Finance · Russia and Soviet political economy

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