The Soviet Iron And Steel Industry

Download or read book The Soviet Iron and Steel Industry written by Craig ZumBrunnen and published by Government Institutes. This book was released on 1986 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this empirically based study, ZumBrunnen and Osleeb present a current, comprehensive, and in-depth view of Soviet heavy industry capacity and suggest that significant changes in production locations and manufacturing efficiency levels are warranted. Using a mathematical model to analyze the optimal locations for Soviet iron and steel production, they predict probable shifts in industry locations, output, and processes at both existing locations and future centers up to the year 1990.