This is an excerpt from the 4-volume dictionary of economics, a reference book which aims to define the subject of economics today. 1300 subject entries in the complete work cover the broad themes of economic theory. This extract concentrates on problems encountered in a planned economy.

Perestroika; A.Aganbegyan - Socialist Planning; M.Ellman - China's Economic Reforms; P.Nolan - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin; D.J.Harris - Central Planning; T.Kowalik - Colbertism; D.C.Coleman - Collective Agriculture; P.Nolan - Command Economy; G.Grossman - Control and Coordination of Economic Activity; B.Martos - Convergence Hypothesis; P.J.D.Wiles - Corporatism; J.Halevi - Cycles in Socialist Economies; D.M.Nuti - East-West Economic Relations; M.Lavigne - Economic Calculation in Socialist Economies; M.Ellman - Fascism; W-D.Classen - Grigorii Alexandrovic Fel'dman; M.Ellman - Investment Planning; J.Halevi - Leonid Vitalievich Kantorovich; V.Makarov - Labour-managed Economies; B.Horvat - Oskar Lange; T.Kowalik - Lange-Lerner Mechanism; T.Kowalik - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin; M.Desai - Abba Ptachya Lerner; T.Scitovsky - Mao Zedong; P.Nolan - Market Socialism; W.Brus - Material Balances; G.Grossman - Vasily Sergeevich Nemchinov; M.C.Kaser - Viktor Valentinovich Novozhilov; H.Hunter & R.W.Campbell - Planned Economy; A.Nove - Planning; R.Vohra - Evgenii Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky; M.Ellman - Prices and Quantities; A.Brody - Socialism; A.Nove - Josif Vissarionovich Stalin; M.Ellman - Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin; M.C.Kaser - Lev Davidovich Trotsky; R.B.Day - Nikolai Alekseevich Voznesensky; M.C.Kaser