I am working by memory, but her work said that the U.S. encouraged Yugoslavia to
follow through with a self-management as a means of further differentiating itself
from the Soviet Union, worried that the two countries might develop a rapprochement.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Michael,
> This is the first I have ever heard of this suggestion. It sounds
> highly improbable to me. According to all my Yugo sources, the
> decision was taken in 1950 largely at the suggestion/urging of
> Edvard Kardelj, who was a close associate of Tito's. It was a
> response to the failure of central planning in such a decentralized
> and ethnically diverse nation and to the negative response to the
> rise of the bureaucracy. In any case, it came after the split from
> the Soviet Union in 1948 so the chronology doesn't make sense of
> Payer's analysis.
>
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
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