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Romania
Index
Stalin's Legacy
The Romanian economic model retained all the salient
features
of Stalinism, including state ownership of the means of
production;
communist party control of economic policy making and
administration through interlocking party and state
bureaucracies;
democratic centralism, including concentration of
decision-making
power in the highest party executive organs and
particularly in the
person of the general secretary; annual and five-year
economic
planning; nonreliance on the counsel of technical and
managerial
experts in setting economic goals; forced deliveries of
economic
output to the state; pricing based on political and
ideological
considerations rather than market forces; reliance on
mobilization
campaigns in lieu of material incentives for workers;
inflexibility
and resistance to reform.
Data as of July 1989
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