NEP and Yugoslavia

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     The NEP  monetary reform involved issuing
gold-backed currency.  Is linking to the DM
the modern equivalent?
     Preobrazhenski at best had a marginal
influence on Novosibirsk group.  Key figure
was Nemchinov in the 50's.  S. Menshikov
essentially irrelevant.  Arrived in the 70's
only, well after Novosibirsk group well
established.  S. Menshikov may well have
told a well-known American co-author of his
that he brought perestroika from Preobrazhenski
to Novosibirsk.  But this would not be the first
time an economist has exaggerated his own role.
     At the level of pure theory, the model of
Fel'dman was much more important and was basis
of Preobrazhenski's late 20's arguments.  Of
course, E.P. was Bukharin's co-author of _The
ABC's of Communism_, (1922), the book to which
Jim Devine referred.
     Yes, Phil, there is a Yugoslavia.  It
consists of the republics of Serbia and Montenegro.
Serbia contains the Autonomous Republic of Kosovo
and the former Autonomous Republic of Vojvodina,
which, as Paul Phillips would eagerly tell you,
has voted itself out of existence to merge with
Serbia fully and officially.
Barkley Rosser
James Madison University
(now visiting at University of Wisconsin-Madison)