Key Soviet DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES
Suppress personal consumption
Exceedingly low discount rate
>High rates of savings
Structural disequilibrium between producer and consumer goods

OVERALL: input infusion approach
Òextensive growthÕ versus Òintensive growthÓ

During 1960s growth rates (~7%/yr after WWII) starts to decline, still remains above 5%
By end of 1970s into Gorbachev era, stagnates 2% down to 0%