Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER ONE: PATTERNS OF INVESTMENT ACTIVITY IN SOVIET INDUSTRY IN THE 1970s; Dynamics of Investment in the 1970s; Characteristics of the Investment Process; The Dynamics of the Capital Coefficient; Basic Factors Which Raise the Capital Coefficient; The Development of the Construction Sector of the Economy; CHAPTER TWO: RENOVATION VERSUS CONSTRUCTION: THE FOCUS OF INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT POLICY; Priority Investmenl in the Renovation of Existing Enterprises
What Gosplan Means by ""Reconstruction, "" and What Actually HappensThe Goals of Renovation and Their Realization; Maximum Investment in Equipment, Minimum Investment in Buildings and Structure; Why the Reconstruction of Old Buildings and the Construction of New Buildings Have Become So Widespread in the Course of Renovation; The Tempo and Qualitative Level of Equipment Renovation; Speeding Up Capital Turnover by Reducing the Amount of Time Needed for the Creation and Breaking in of Productive Capacities; Reasons for the Failure of the Reconstruction Policy
The Reduction in the Share ol Net Investment and Some Theoretical Exercises on the Part of Soviet EconomistsCHAPTER THREE: INVESTMENT PROBLEMS IN THE 1980s; The Main Features of the Investment Program for the First Half of the 1980s; Construction Challenges the Machine-Building Industry; Ameliorating Factors; Drawing Certain Analogies with the Past; Investments Must Climb for Industrial Output to Intensify; The Restructuring ol Industrial Investments: The First and Foremost Condition for Industrial Growth; CHAPTER FOUR: THE EAST'S SHARE OF THE INVESTMENT PIE AND THE ROLE OF SIBERIAN INDUSTRY
General Patterns of Change in the Spatial Structure of Capital InvestmentThe Fundamental Reasons for the Slow Investment Flow into the East; Underinvestment in Housing and Its Consequences; The Role of Siberia in Soviet Industry; Investment in Siberian Industry and Development of Oil and Gas Production; CHAPTER FIVE: THE CONCEPT OF SIBERIAN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION; The Paradox of Electrical Energy; 1. The Power Shortage in Siberia and Its Causes; 2. The Kansk-Achinsk Node; The Paradox of the Machine-Building Industry
1. Trends in Siberian Machine-Buiiding and Its Role in USSR Production2. Lack of Correspondence of the Structure of Production to Requirements; 3. Hypothesis on the Development of Siberian Machine-Building; 4. Some Special Demands on Siberian Machine-Butlding Production; CHAPTER SIX: PECULIARITIES OF CONSTRUCTION IN SIBERIA; 1. Underinvestment in Siberia s Construction Industry; 2. The Absence of Construction Technology and Designs That Meet the Extreme Conditions of Construction on Northern Regions of Siberia; 3. Retardation of Design and Industrial Construction Technology in the USSR
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