Reflections of an Authoritative State Administrator on the Late-Soviet and Post-Soviet Evolution of the State Economic Management System [About the Book by E.A. Ivanov «We Need to Search for a New Model of State Management of the Economy (and Can We Take Something from the Soviet Planning for This?)»

Abstract

The article is a review of the book indicated in the title, published in 2018 by «Ankil» publishing house. Analyzing the late Soviet (1985–1991) and post-Soviet (after 1991) evolution of the system of state economic management and its effectiveness, while mobilizing extensive factual and statistical material, the author of the book justifies the recommendation to the Russian leadership to stop throwing between the fear of losing «market innocence» and the practice of «smuggling» the use of non-market management methods. While agreeing with this recommendation, the reviewer also shares the opinion of E.A. Ivanov about such an indispensable prerequisite for solving the problems set in the monograph as using the potential of the Federal legislative act on strategic planning that appeared in 2014 (which does not mean that there is no need to improve the adopted specific version of the document).