Problems of Differential Rent in the Collective Farms

Abstract

The discussion on differential rent under socialism conducted by the journal Voprosy ekonomiki has evoked a wide response in the scholarly community. At the same time, questions of rent have been discussed or touched upon to some extent in the journals Ekonomika sel'skogo khoziaistva and Planovoe khoziaistvo; in the 1960 collection issued by the Academy of Social Sciences (Party Central Committee), Socialist Agriculture at the Present Stage and Problems of Agrarian Theory [Sotsialisticheskoe sel'skoe khoziaistvo na sovremennom etape i voprosy agrarnoi teorii]; and in the collection issued in 1960 by the USSR Academy of Sciences' Institute of Economics, Development of the Collective Economy of the Collective Farms [Razvitiia obshchestvennogo khoziaistva kolkhozov]. There have also been contributions in the journals and annals of the higher educational institutions. In the autumn of 1958 the Department of economics of Moscow State University arranged a discussion of differential rent. (1)