...David G. Davies Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Tax Policy, Economic Growth, and the Ideas of the New Supply-Side Economists David G. Davies The negligible rate of growth of most developed and developing economies has led to a growing disenchantment with the long-reigning...

... excavates two key phases in the Soviet experiment with a planned economy, namely, the New Economic Policy under Lenin and the Stalinist institution of the five-year plan, to explore the way in which planning could be thought of as directly incorporating a dimension of social and class conflict...

...Jillian Crandall; Andrew Mercado Vázquez Increasingly, blockchains and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) are posed to impact economic futures and urban governance. New forms of human settlement are emerging as a result of and in service to cryptocurrency, curiously concentrating in areas...

...Huascar Salazar Lohman Recently, the policies promoted by the government of the Movement to Socialism Party ( Movimiento al Socialismo ; MAS) have shown themselves to be increasingly and explicitly tied to the interests of old and new dominant elites. In contrast to the neoliberal era, when...

...). Economics returns because its materialism is now immaterial: “self-making,” “innovation,” “creativity,” and other entrepreneurial qualities of the poietic intellect (where poiesis means a making or crafting). All are extolled as the new primary forces of value and are distinguished sharply from the physical...

... a kleptocratic ruling class of sectarian leaders and financiers that had captured and bankrupted the state through a nationwide Ponzi scheme. Protests were nation-wide, calling for the downfall of the government and reform of the sectarian political and clientalist system. Many demanded a new form of politics...

... and distribution was laid during this chaotic period. The introduction of the New Economic Policy in 1921 brought with it a host of new problems. The initial concession of permitting the peas­ ants to barter surplus grain for manufactures inevitably compelled addi­ tional changes. The demand for manufactured...

... to the beginning of 1924, a period that fully deserves that overworked label, a period of transition. By the end of 1922 the New Economic Policy was bringing results. After the famine of 1921, agriculture was going well. Consumers goods, industries, and the railroads were again operating effectively; the acute...

... enabled Secretary Hull to press the new economic policies he had set forth at Montevideo in December, 1933. While visiting President Vincent in July, President Roosevelt per­ sonally concluded arrangements for termination of intervention in Haiti. The transfer of certain buildings and equipment...

... and restored it to the natives. Under the New Economic Policy the famine came to an end, and cotton-growing revived, thanks to shipments of cheap food into the area and the restoration of much of the irrigation system. While efforts were made to develop local industry, little was done by 1927 except to revive...

... collapse in Soviet Russia demanded a search for salvation, which was impossible without foreign trade. Hence the New Economic Policy of 1921, partially restoring capitalism within Russia, was accompanied by frantic efforts to gain foreign trade, prevent new attacks on the workers fatherland, and secure...

... the pattern changes, for it ties together economics, international relations, and the complicated political developments from the latter part of 1922 to the beginning of 1924, a period that fully deserves that overworked label, a period of transition. By the end of 1922 the New Economic Policy was bringing...

... that Western observers have been caught off guard. On each occasion some Westerners hastily concluded that Soviet foreign policy had undergone basic and permanent changes. Such was the case with Lenin s New Economic Policy of 1921, when the Soviet economy was returned temporarily to capitalism. Many...

..., and the Church hierarchy manifested sympathy with the anti-Bolshevik cause. The Reds retaliated by various measures of punishment, though execution of offenders, as frequently charged by emigre clergy, was not the customary practice. During the period of the New Economic Policy (1921-1928), a strategic retreat...

... to 1933: 1. The tremendous impact of the Five-Year Plan on a world in de­ pression [made] Russia the nation of contrast. 2. The Five-Year Plan was over-rated just as Bolshevism earlier had been exaggerated, and the New Economic Policy wrongly estimated. 3. The immense requirements of the Five-Year Plan...

... and the peasant uprisings in the Tambov province during 1920-21. Both events contributed to Lenin s introduction of the New Economic Policy (NEP) in 1921. The Kronstadt events are depicted in Mikhail Kuraev s story Captain Dikshtein, which was recently published in translation by Ardis Publishers (Glasnost...

... to be colored glass. Some priests were executed for opposing the seizure of the Church treasures. After the introduction of the New Economic Policy there came a period of comparative peace, accompanied by a relaxa­ tion of persecution. It has been true ever since the Revolu­ tion that the periods of greatest...

... stalked the land, industry was severely depleted, and the future of the Bolshevik regime looked bleak. In these circumstances, Lenin proclaimed his New Economic Policy (NEP), a program intended to encourage individual enterprise in agricul­ ture, retail trade, and light industry, while retaining what...

... The South Atlantic Quarterly the United Front was a retreat from a revolutionary policy. Thus, contradictorily, Zinoviev could acknowledge that the United Front had a definite relationship to the difficult situation in Russia that had forced acceptance of the New Economic Policy (N.E.P and at the same time...

..., the extent to which Russia is included or excluded from an enlarged EU and, even if the economy does improve (as development of its oil resources and its new economic policies suggest it will), the extent to which it will choose democratic reforms over empire are still open questions. The verdict...