The Soviet Union as the Pilot Economic Laboratory of the World

In the economic practice of the Soviet Union, many decisions were developed that were perceived in many countries. The main experiment, the author considers the work with hundreds of thousands of top managers who do not have the property rights to their business. This article discusses methods of ensuring currency stability in the Soviet Union — sole proprietorship and personal responsibility, the formation of a personnel reserve and the so-called “nomenclature”. Such Soviet developments as Dynamo and Lipetsk methods, brigade contract and Saratov system, and today are used by different countries. On this basis, it is proposed to consider the Soviet Union as an objective pilot economic laboratory of the world.

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