Trade and Technology in Soviet-Western Relations

agriculture ammonia assessment assimilation average branch ministries Brezhnev capacity capital stock cent Chapter chemical industry chemical plant Cobb-Douglas CoCom commercial complex fertilisers cooperation costs countries Desai détente diffusion domestic East European East-West trade Eastern Europe effect enterprise equipment estimates exports flows foreign trade Gomulka Gosplan hard-currency impact implementation imported machinery imported technology imported Western machinery imports of Western increase innovation inputs installation isoquants Kama River Kosygin labour productivity lead-times licence machinery and know-how machinery imports major mineral fertiliser Narkhoz noted nutrient OECD official organisations output period planning Politburo priority production function products and processes projects purchases relations relatively rubles SCST Smelyakov sources Soviet economic Soviet imports Soviet industrial Soviet policy-makers Soviet Union substantial supply Table technical change technological change technology imports technology transfer tend tion Tolyatti USSR utilisation Weitzman West West German