CENTRALLY PLANNED ECONOMY 2400-PLSM101A

Knowledge:
Seminar enlarged the knowledge of the history and evolution of the centrally planned economy. Student is familiar with the methods of analyzing the functioning of the command economy and the socialist firms. Student is also familiar with extend interpretation of the causes of rising and collapses of the centrally planned economies, particularly in the East European countries. During the course students are knowledgeable about the rules of academic writing and understand what means to perpetrate plagiarism.
1. Student has enlarged knowledge of the rules of academic writing and understand what means to perpetrate plagiarism.
2. Student knows the methods of preparing and analyzing the statistical data and other sources.
3. Student is familiar with the economic theories which are useful by the analyzing the different aspects of the centrally planned system – functioning, organization, history etc.
4.Student has enlarged knowledge of organizational forms of the socialist firm and its strategies.
5. Student knows the evolution of the command economy; understands the causes of the collapse of the command system.

Competences:
Upon completion of the course student is able to prepare MA thesis, formulate research hypotheses, and prepare an oral presentation as well as he/she is able to collect, organize and analyze economic data and materials.. He/she is able to perform advanced analyses of different economic phenomena in short and long term, comparative analysis, and take into account the social context of the analyzed phenomena. Student can think critically.

1.Student is able to collect and analyze data and information for his/her research work using Internet, libraries and other resources. He can formulate research problems and questions on his/her own as well as justify their importance basing on literature. He/she is able to indicate economic theories to interpret economic changes. Student is able to prepare paper/thesis which fulfill all requirements.
2. Student is able to prepare an oral presentations concerning his/her research.
3. Student is able to use the knowledge gained during studies to solve research problems.

Social competences:
The course is also designed to develop the competences of responsibility, critical thinking, analyzing problems and identifying information as well as the public presentations and discussions. In addition, student is able to identify his/her incompetence and lack of knowledge, and is conscious of the lifetime-learning process.
1. Student is able to find out data and information by their own and then properly analyze them. Student is able to formulate the research question and prepare the MA thesis
2. Student is prepared for the public presentations, discussions and critical analyze of the opinions of others. They are able to identify their incompetence and lack of knowledge, and are conscious of the lifetime-learning process..
3. Students are prepared to use the knowledge gained during course in practice.

KW01, KW02, KW03, KU01, KU02, KU03, KK01, KK02, KK03

For credit and grade, the students are expected to:
1. prepare oral presentations (ca. 20-30 min. long)
2. participate actively in discussion
3. prepare proposal of the thesis [in the first semester].
4. prepare the part of the thesis [in others semesters].

Main literature:
Allen Robert C., Farm to Factory. Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution, Princton University Press, Princton, N.J. 2003.
Allen Robert C., The Rise and Decline of the Soviet Economy, The Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'Economique 2001, Vol. 34, No. 4, s. 859–881.
Balcerowicz Ewa, Przetarg planistyczny. Mechanizmy I skutki społeczno-gospodarcze, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Ekonomiczne, Warszawa 1991.
Balcerowicz Leszek, Systemy gospodarcze. Elementy analizy porównawczej, Szkoła Główna Handlowa, Warszawa 1993.
Belova Eugienia, Paul R. Gregory, Dictator, Loyal, And Opportunistic Agents: The Soviet Archives On Creating The Soviet Economic System, Public Choice 2002, Vol. 113, No. 3–4, s. 265–286.
Bergson Abram, The Economics of Soviet Planning, Yale University Press, New Haven 1964.
Berliner Joseph S., Factory and Manager in the USSR, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1957.
Boetke Peter J., The Political Economy of Soviet Socialism: The Formative Years 1918–1928, Kluver Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 1990.
Boettke Peter J., Gary M. Anderson, Soviet Venality: A Rent-seeking Model of the Communist State, Public Choice 1997, Vol. 93, No. 1–2, s. 37–53.
Gregory Paul R. (red.), Behind the Facade of Stalin's Command Economy: Evidence from the Soviet State and Party Archives, Hoover Institution Press, Stanford 2001.
Gregory Paul R., Mark Harrison, Allocation under Dictatorship: Research in Stalin’s Archives, Journal of Economic Literature 2005, Vol. 43, No. 3, s. 721–761.
Gregory Paul R., Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1990.
Gregory Paul R., The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003.
Grossman Gregory, The Second Economy of the USSR, Problems of Communism September-October 1977, Vol. 26, No. 5, s. 25–40.
Hanson Philip, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy. An Economic History of the USSR from 1945, Longman, London 2003.
Harasymiw Bohdan, Nomenklatura: The Soviet Communist Party's Leadership Recruitment System, Canadian Journal of Political Science 1969, Vol. 2, No. 4, s. 493–512.
Harrison Mark, Coercion, Compliance, and the Collapse of the Soviet Command Economy, Economic History Review 2002, Vol. 55, No. 3, s. 397–433.
Harrison Mark, Fundamental Problem of Command: Plan and Compliance in a Partially Centralized Economy, Comparative Economic Studies 2005, Vol. 47, No. 2, s. 296–314.
Kornai János, Niedobór w gospodarce, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Ekonomiczne, Warszawa 1985.
Kornai János, The Socialist System. The Political Economy of Communism, Princton University Press, Princeton 1992.
Kotkin Stephen, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as Civilization, University of California Press, Berkley 1995.
Lazarev Valery, Economics of One-Party State: Promotion Incentives and Support of the Soviet Regime, Comparative Economic Studies 2005, Vol. 47, No. 2, s. 346–363.
Ledeneva Alena V., Russia’s Economy of Favours. Blat, Networking and Informal Exchange, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1998.
Nove Alec, The Soviet Economic System, G. Allen & Unwin, London 1977.
Olson Mancur, Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development, The American Political Science Review 1993, Vol. 87, No. 3, s. 567–576.
Olson Mancur, Power and Prosperity. Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships, Basic Books, New York 2000.
Wintrobe Ronald, The Political Economy of Dictatorship, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge–New York 1998.
Zaleski Eugéne, Stalinist Planning for Economic Growth 1933–1952, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1980.

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