Prices of producers' durables in the United States and the USSR in 1955
ResearchPublished 1959
A joint study with the Stanford Research Institute to provide USSR-US wholesale price ratios for 1955 for a representative sample of producers' durable equipment comprised of some 500 items. It is concluded that in 1955 the average price ratio for Soviet and American machinery was approximately six rubles per dollar. Price trends in the two countries since 1955 indicate that a lower ruble-dollar ratio should be applied in comparisons of current Soviet and American investment outlays on producers' durables. This work should be useful to analysts of the Soviet military budget and of Soviet weapon-system costs.
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- Year: 1959
- Pages: 306
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