LIMITELE RAȚIONALITĂȚII ÎN POLITICA ECONOMICĂ A ROMÂNIEI SOCIALISTE. PLANUL DE PERSPECTIVĂ 1960-1975
THE LIMITS OF RATIONALITY IN THE ECONOMIC POLICY OF SOCIALIST ROMANIA: THE 1960-1975 PERSPECTIVE PLAN

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the first long perspective general economic plan that was set up in Romania by the communist leadership during the “popular republic” era. While discussing the character of this type of planning in contrast to modern prognosis, the major development directions envisioned by Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (first-secretary of the communist party) and his circle are revealed, along with political circumstances at the end of the 1950s. Important alterations of the initial plan are shown with regard to political arbitrariness and regime discontinuities (e.g. changes in the subsequent Nicolae Ceaușescu era). The data used come from unexploited archives and helped in disentangling the deviating structures of industrial development drive during the 1960s and the early 1970s.

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