Commissars and cars: A case study in the political economy of dictatorship.

We use unique archival data on the allocation of vehicles, i.e. cars and trucks, in the 1930s by a three-person commission of top Soviet officials for an empirical investigation of resource allocation by a dictatorship. Two distinct models of dictatorial allocative behavior, namely, an economic plan...

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Publicado en:Journal of Comparative Economics Vol. 31; no. 1; pp. 1 - 20
Autores principales: Lazarev, Valery, Gregory, Paul
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Academic Press Inc. March 2003
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