Download or read book Productivity and the Social System written by Abram Bergson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of the comparative efficiency of socialism, long debated in theoretical discussions, is explored in depth in these studies. Abram Bergson, one of the foremost Western scholars of the Soviet system, focuses especially on socialism as found in the USSR, and thus on the famous 'Soviet model.'