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Socialist central economic planning, as it has been practised and theorised in the Soviet Union and most Eastern European countries, has long neglected the issues of decentralisation and pricing. Although this has been less the case since the reforms of the late 1960s, the emphasis of those reforms too has been on organisational and management rules rather than prices.
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Benard, J. (1989). Socialist Incentive Schemes and the Price-Setting Problem. In: Gomulka, S., Ha, YC., Kim, CO. (eds) Economic Reforms in the Socialist World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10668-4_15
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