THE ECONOMICS OF SOVIET BREAK -UP -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction and Overview -- Organisation of this book -- 2 The Economics of Soviet Break-Up -- A proposition -- The size of the pie and its distribution -- Soviet break-up -- Conclusion -- 3 The Soviet Union, 1922-91 -- The rise and fall of the Union -- The republics' inputs: land, labour, capital -- The republics' outputs -- The Union's infrastructural legacy -- Untitled -- 4 Former Soviet Republics' Economic Interdependence -- Introduction -- Analysing Soviet republics' economic interdependence -- Exchange of outputs -- Exchange of inputs: capital -- Exchange of inputs: labour -- Interrepublican economic relations: future prospects -- Conclusion -- 5 A Gravity Model of the Former Soviet Union -- Introduction -- Gravity modelling in economics -- The Soviet case -- Expected trade reorientation -- Implications for potential 'former Soviet' institutions -- Conclusion -- 6 The Soviet Union as a Customs and Monetary Union -- Intorduction -- Customs Unions theory -- Monetary Unions -- Theory applied to the EU and the former USSR -- Conclusion -- 7 The Soviet Union as a Payments Union -- Introduction -- The European Payments Union Experience, 1950-8 -- Europe then and Russia now -- Practice: what's going on? -- Conclusion -- 8 The Soviet Union as a Redistributor -- Introduction -- Capital transfers: methodology and results -- A shift in investment priorities -- The effects of capital transfers: dispersion trends in the Soviet republics' levels of development -- Transfers after the break-up of the Soviet Union -- Conclusion -- Appendix: output maximisation versus equality -- 9 The Newly Independent States in Transition -- Introduction -- Stabilisation -- Liberalisation -- Privatisation -- Conclusion.

10 Conclusion Economic relations among ex-USSR republics: past, present and future -- Introduction -- Past -- Present -- Future -- The size of the pie and its distribution revisited -- Border relevance -- Notes -- References.