Abstract
Planning and Control in the Socialist Economies: a Theory of Accounting Value. Starting from the general proposition that the Soviet type economy is one characterised by a system of accounting value, i.e. by a set of norms aimed at ensuring external control over the behaviour of units organised in a hierarchical structure of dependence, the article attempts to show what are the essential relationships underpinning the Soviet type of organisation and its concomitant method of evaluation, and also to relate analytically the actual degrees of autonomy and subordination of the units of production. The models of the Soviet economy, as a command or pluralist economy, are then seen as inadequate, while the second economy becomes an informal connterpart closely interwoven with the pattern of formal economic activity.
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