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One of the sources of legitimation of communist regimes, both internally and in the eyes of foreign supporters, has been the convinction that the Soviet-type, centrally planned economy was able to ensure a more egalitarian, or at any rate a more equitable distribution of personal incomes. Now that the communist regimes of Eastern Europe have suddenly crumbled one after another, it seems interesting to assess whether such a conviction was justified and whether the changes which are under way are bound to produce a less egalitarian distribution of personal incomes.
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Chilosi, A. (1990). Distributional And Redistributional Processes In Soviet-Type Economies And The Distributional Impact of Institutional Change. In: Dagum, C., Zenga, M. (eds) Income and Wealth Distribution, Inequality and Poverty. Studies in Contemporary Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84250-4_27
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