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...Planning Still Primitive...
...Russia is still generations behind us with regard to consumption," says Alouishes A. Bergson, professor of Economics, but the U.S.S.R. is making substantial progress in bridging...
Professor Bergson, who visited the Soviet Union this summer for the third time, in order to get some idea of the present economic state, observes that the diet and clothing of the workers are still very poor. A good suit, he points out, costs 1500 rubles, but the average worker makes only 800 rubles a month, the equivalent...
After visiting the universities at Kiev and Moscow, Bergson finds them "still centering their economic education on Marx." The curriculum is primarily ideological, and tends to train secondary school teachers rather than economic planners. Partly as a result of this, Bergson maintains that "planning continues to be technically on a primitive plane...
Doty, who visited Russia in May 1958 after an invitation from the Academy of Sciences, was impressed by the rapidly rising ability of Soviet scientists. Though he considered them still slightly behind the United States as a scientific nation, he warned that "it is the gradient rather than the level" of study that counts. "Their goals are defined by what the state needs," he pointed out, "and their exhaustive investigations could put them ahead before long...