Comments on: Wrap Your Baby in Old Newspapers — the 70 Years of Deficit of Everything. http://www.realussr.com/ussr/wrap-your-baby-in-old-newspapers-the-70-years-of-deficit-of-everything/ Lifting The Iron Curtain Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nova http://www.realussr.com/ussr/wrap-your-baby-in-old-newspapers-the-70-years-of-deficit-of-everything/comment-page-1/#comment-903 Nova Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:25:00 +0000 http://www.realussr.com/?p=1355#comment-903 The shortages were probably caused by the price setting mechanism the Soviet Union used. Without a market to set prices, prices were set by planners. However, these planners had no way to determine what the equilibrium price would be (the price where supply equals demand). If they set prices too low (and there may have been political pressure to do so) you end up with a shortage. The shortages were probably caused by the price setting mechanism the Soviet Union used. Without a market to set prices, prices were set by planners. However, these planners had no way to determine what the equilibrium price would be (the price where supply equals demand). If they set prices too low (and there may have been political pressure to do so) you end up with a shortage.

]]> By: Baby Wrap Reviews http://www.realussr.com/ussr/wrap-your-baby-in-old-newspapers-the-70-years-of-deficit-of-everything/comment-page-1/#comment-459 Baby Wrap Reviews Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:20:59 +0000 http://www.realussr.com/?p=1355#comment-459 It's good to see that old pictures are preserved. Thank you for sharing this. It’s good to see that old pictures are preserved. Thank you for sharing this.

]]> By: Eva Forever http://www.realussr.com/ussr/wrap-your-baby-in-old-newspapers-the-70-years-of-deficit-of-everything/comment-page-1/#comment-432 Eva Forever Mon, 24 May 2010 18:21:04 +0000 http://www.realussr.com/?p=1355#comment-432 With your attention to detail, you should be on our writers' board! Would you consider that? Our blog would certainly benefit from somebody who knows that subject so thoroughly. <br><br>Furthermore, the article takes a generic outlook on the problem of deficit - so the picture of a shop selling clothes seems appropriate. With your attention to detail, you should be on our writers’ board! Would you consider that? Our blog would certainly benefit from somebody who knows that subject so thoroughly.

Furthermore, the article takes a generic outlook on the problem of deficit — so the picture of a shop selling clothes seems appropriate.

]]> By: Let us be exact http://www.realussr.com/ussr/wrap-your-baby-in-old-newspapers-the-70-years-of-deficit-of-everything/comment-page-1/#comment-421 Let us be exact Sun, 23 May 2010 13:40:41 +0000 http://www.realussr.com/?p=1355#comment-421 Those are the pictures from Gorbachev's perestroika times. Before that the stirict medical and sanitary relulations stricitly forbade selling closing in food supplies shops. The only exclusions wer Sel'pos (rural/village shops) Those are the pictures from Gorbachev’s perestroika times. Before that the stirict medical and sanitary relulations stricitly forbade selling closing in food supplies shops. The only exclusions wer Sel’pos (rural/village shops)

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