@article{d8273592d9f040828a00666402f74129,
title = "Agricultural marketing and the possibilities for industrialization in the Soviet Union in the 1930s",
abstract = "This paper analyzes the theory that Soviet farm marketing was so price unresponsive that rapid industrialization within the framework of the NEP would have been choked off by rising farm prices and inadequate sales. A model of farm marketing is developed for the period 1913-1928 and is embedded in a general equilibrium model for the Soviet economy. Simulations show that farm marketings would have been substantial and growth would have been rapid if the investment boom of the 1930s had been pursued within the marketing framework of the NEP. However, collectivization did accelerate industrialization by increasing the rate of rural-urban migration.",
author = "Allen, {Robert C.}",
note = "Funding Information: * I thank Erwin Diewert, David Green, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Paul Gregory, Gregory Grossman, Holland Hunter, Cormac O Grada, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Angela Redish, and Bill Schworm for helpful comments and discussions and Ian Keay for research assistance. Earlier versions of this work were presented to seminars and conferences at the Universities of California, Copenhagen, Illinois, and Michigan and at Harvard University, Moscow State University, Northwestern University, and the Institut National de la Recherche de l{\textquoteright}Agriculture, and I am grateful to the participants at those events. Remaining errors are my own. This research was supported by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and by the International Research and Exchanges Board. Copyright: Copyright 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam. All rights reserved.",
year = "1997",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1006/exeh.1997.0684",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "34",
pages = "387--410",
journal = "Explorations in Economic History",
issn = "0014-4983",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
number = "4",
}