Current Research Projects: Gregory

Principal investigator	Paul R. Gregory
Institutional affiliation	University of Houston Visiting Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution
Other investigators	Eugenia Belova (University of Houston) Valery Lazarev (University of Houston) Andrei Markevich (Institute of Russian History, RAN) Yuly Olsevich (Professor of Economics, Moscow State University, and Institute of Economics, RAN) Aleksei Tikhonov (University of Houston)
Title of project	High-Level Decision Making in the Soviet Administrative-Command Economy
Sources of funding	US National Science Foundation, and Hoover Institution
Brief description	The project comprises a series of economic studies based on the Soviet state and party archives: Centralized decision-making: state commmittees, politburo and industrial ministries Contracts and arbitration Centralized allocation of vehicles The ministry of heavy industry The economics of the Gulag "Lesser" terror: economic incentives and punishments Planners' preferences Analysis of interviews in 1988 with Soviet economic administrators The first postwar five-year plan.
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Research in Former Soviet Archives on Issues of Historical Political Economy