Comecon : integration problems of the planned economies / Michael Kaser.

Acknowledgements, vii -- I. Introduction, 1 -- Part I. The history -- II. Circumstances of Birth, 9 -- III. Economic Co-operation within the Initial Framework, 24 -- IV. Ad hoc Meetings, 1950-5, 39 -- V. Institutional Reinforcement, 1956-60, 63 -- VI. Dissensions, 1961-4, 83 -- Part II. Achievements and prospects -- VII. Trade, 111 -- VIII. Technical Co-operation, 126 -- IX. Pricing, 140 -- X. Integration, 158 -- Appendices -- I. Sessions of the council, 173 -- II. Meetings of the executive committee, 177 -- III. Meetings of representatives of communist parties of Comecon member countries, 180 -- IV. The Comecon Charter, 1960, 187 -- V. Convention on immunities, 188 -- VI. Basic principles of international socialist division of labour, 190 -- VII. Senior officers of comecon, july 1964, 196 -- VIII. Comecon permanent agencies, 198 -- IX. Non-comecon agencies of socialist countries, 203 -- Bibliographical abbreviations, 204 -- Index, 207.