The Performance of Private and Cooperative Socialist Organization: Postwar Yugoslav Agriculture
通过全要素生产率估计，比较南斯拉夫农业中社会主义企业与私有生产者的生产率差异，发现合作社社会主义企业并非天生低效，甚至可能超越私有生产者，且其技术采纳行为与非社会主义企业类似。
Socialist enterprises in Yugoslav agriculture show higher levels of productivity than private producers. The author examines the sources of these differences with total factor productivity estimates based on sectoral aggregate Cobb-Douglas production functions which permit separation of environmental, policy, and organizational effects. The results support the following conclusions: cooperative socialist enterprises are not inherently inefficient and can even outperform private producers; both types of producers were responding to their environment and their differential rates of technological change reflect the different constraints they faced; and socialist enterprises exhibited technology adoption behavior similar to nonsocialist enterprises elsewhere. Copyright 1987 by MIT Press.