¥Growing awareness of opportunity costs
¥Comparative advantage
¥Revivial of cost consciousness in 1950s
¥Post-Stalinist policy
¥Minimize total production costs
¥Goal of spatially uniform development takes back seat
¥High labor
and infrastructural costs in east leads to 2 decades to
concentrate labor-intensive activities in west, and energy
intensive activities in east
¥Growth
Poles - TPK - territorial production complexes
¥Linkages - ferrous metallurgy/machine building, petrochemical
¥Encounter Herschmann curve issue