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Spulber, Nicolas was born on January 1, 1915 in Romania.
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In this volume, which was originally published in 1979, an essay of analysis prefaces a collection of translated papers from Eastern Europe. The juxtaposition of analysis and original documents from Eastern European authorities (both revered there and disgraced) enables the reader to join in the experience of interpretation. The essay (Part I) provides an analysis of the mechanisms of Soviet-type economies. It concentrates on four issues: decision-making processes; the limits upon the choices made; practical implementation of the choices; and the objectives implied by them. This ends with an explanation of the relatively scant application of economic principles to the operation of this type of economic system. Part II is a reader consisting of appropriately chosen original texts from Eastern European sources grouped into sections on administration, resource allocation, planning and incentives. The issues are examined in relation to the special conditions which brought them to a head.
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This work focuses on the economic challenges the American economy has met during the post-World War II era, and on the new challenges--represented notably by the competing economies of Japan, Germany, and the entire European union--that confront it as the twenty-first century approaches. The book shows how the transformations brought about by international competition fit the long-term processes of economic growth and change with respect to structural mutations, technological development, the role of the government, and the evolution of government-business relations. Nicholas Spulber presents a detailed critique of the thesis alleging that the American economy had experienced some kind of decline, and argues that the economy will continue to move forward energetically and successfully if growth and change are primarily left to emerge from the impulses and incentives of the private economy.
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This book develops a general economic model which integrates the quantity and quality issues of water resource management and provides, along with a detailed criticism of the policy instruments now in use, alternative proposals concerning the efficient allocation and distribution of water. In particular the authors treat water as a multi-product commodity where the market plays a major role in determining water quality--discriminant pricing and its value to the user. The book examines the process of moving from administrative allocation and regulation to privatization of the water industry as the key element in promoting effective competition and in providing economic incentives for greater efficiency. The book is divided into four major parts. The first presents the analytical framework within which the main issues in the management of water resources are examined. The second part focuses on water-quality modeling and the analysis of quantity--quality controls and water distribution. Part three examines instruments of public policy and the regulations enacted for water resources management. The fourth part presents the overall conclusions. The book is designed for all students of environmental problems, as well as for professionals involved in water-resources allocation and in pollution-abatement programs at both planning and management levels. The book can be used in graduate courses in water resource management, environment management, economics of natural resources, and planning, as well as a basic reference work on water resources and on the management of natural resources in general.
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The appearance of this Second Edition has been encouraged by the favorable reception of the first. This has offered us the opportunity to update the materials and to expand the exposition ofour central theses concerning (1) the integration of water quantity-quality issues and the treatment of water as a multi-product commodity, with the market playing a major role in determining water quality-discriminant pricing; (2) the drawbacks of public controls, regulation and enforcement, and the need to expand privatization of water supply and of water and wastewater treatment facilities to ensure their appropriate development and modernization through increased reliance on private capital; (3) the unification and centralization of water management on the river basin level in order to handle effectively the expanding pressures for water availability, for the elimination of waterborne disease, for extensive and effective pollution abatement as well as coping with the related issues of soil erosion, siltation in streams, channels, and reservoirs, protection against distress from drought and floods, and with the myriad problems relating to the environment, recreation, and navigation. We have maintained the division ofthe book into four major parts and 12 chapters.
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(The appearance of this Second Edition has been encouraged...)
The appearance of this Second Edition has been encouraged by the favorable reception of the first. This has offered us the opportunity to update the materials and to expand the exposition ofour central theses concerning (1) the integration of water quantity-quality issues and the treatment of water as a multi-product commodity, with the market playing a major role in determining water quality-discriminant pricing; (2) the drawbacks of public controls, regulation and enforcement, and the need to expand privatization of water supply and of water and wastewater treatment facilities to ensure their appropriate development and modernization through increased reliance on private capital; (3) the unification and centralization of water management on the river basin level in order to handle effectively the expanding pressures for water availability, for the elimination of waterborne disease, for extensive and effective pollution abatement as well as coping with the related issues of soil erosion, siltation in streams, channels, and reservoirs, protection against distress from drought and floods, and with the myriad problems relating to the environment, recreation, and navigation. We have maintained the division ofthe book into four major parts and 12 chapters.
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Spulber, Nicolas was born on January 1, 1915 in Romania.
Master of Arts, New School Social Research, 1950. Doctor of Philosophy magna cum laude, New School Social Research, 1952. Doctor (honorary), University Bucharest, 2002.
Research Association, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., USA, 1952-1954. Lector, Association Professor, Professor of Economics, Indiana University, 1954-1980. Visiting Professor of Economics, City College New York, 1963-1964.
Scholar, International Research Center, Indiana University, 1967-1972. Distinguished Professor Emeritus Economics, Indiana University, Bloomington IND, United States of America, since 1980.
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Author: The Economics of Communist Eastern Europe, 1957, reissued 1976, The Soviet Economy: Structure, Principles, Problems, 1962, second edition, 1969, Soviet Strategy for Economic Growth, 1964, The State and Economic Development, 1966, Socialist Management and Planning, 1971, Organizational Alternatives in Soviet-Type Economies, 1979, Managing the American Economy from Roosevelt to Reagan, 1989, Restructuring the Soviet Economy: In Search of the Market, 1991, The American Economy: The Struggle for Supremacy in the 21st Century, 1995, reissued 1997, Redfining the State: Privatization and Welfare Reform in Industrial and Transitional Economies, 1997, Russia's Economic Transitions from Late Tsarism to the New Millennium, 2003. Co-author: Quantitative Economic Policy and Planning, 1976, Economics of Water Resources: From Regulation to Privatization, 1994, second edition, 1998, editor, co-editor 5 books. Contributor articles to professional journals.
My earliest work focussed on the study of the economic relations between the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe after World War II (this was the subject of my Doctor of Philosophy dissertation). Subsequently I turned my attention to the changes undergone by the East European economies through the adoption and implementation of the Soviet economic model. Viewed through the prismatic refractions of six different countries with dissimilar traditions and different levels of development and resources, certain accepted assumptions concerning the role, scope and pace of nationalisation and collectivisation, and the Soviet strategy of growth, could be retested and examined under new angles (Book 1 above).
I then examined in three interrelated analytical works (1) the formulation and the rationale of the Soviet approaches to growth and development (Book 2 above).
(2) the Soviet planning system and the modus operandi of the Soviet economy (Book 4 above). And (3) the most decisive attempts of modify the Soviet-type system without fully challenging all its premises and its rationale (Book 7 above). In the meantime I also focussed on the relations between the Soviet planning concepts and methods (Book 5 above) and the models and methods developed in the West (Book 6 above).
This latter volume provided a single quantitative framework for the formulation of policy decisions, the use of instruments for carrying them out, and the choosing of the methods for integrating policies and instruments into consistent national, regional, or sectoral plans. My current research concerns the evolution of economic polices in certain mixed economies.
Member American Economic Association.
Married Pauline, August 5, 1950. 1 son, Daniel Francis.