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Yugoslav Regional Development Policy, 1952-1971. This paper analyzes the regional economic policy carried out by the Yugoslav government during the first twenty years of the workers' self-management period as it affected industrial development. The first major section reports a measurement of industrial growth in the republics and autonomous provinces of Yugoslavia during the period in question using a special sample index developed for this purpose. Overall and per capita growth rates derived from the index and population data in the areas indicate that the policy generally failed to meet industrial growth objectives. A program transferring investment funds from more developed to less developed areas was a major component of the regional policy. The volume of investment fund transfers and interregional differences in capital stock growth rates resulting from it are investigated next. The size of the investment fund transfers and their impact on national industrial growth are taken up in the paper's next section. Only the roughest estimates of the size of the transfers are possible with available data. Certain inconsistencies of the regional policy are taken up in the final section of the paper. It notes that Yugoslav economists generally agree that the program failed during the period under consideration. Many reasons given by them for the failure are discussed.

Supervision of the Acts of Public Administration by the Constitutional Courts in Yugoslavia. Every act carried out by the public administration must be based on a definite juridical norm. In the domain of public administration, this is what is meant by the principle of legality, the principle of the primacy of the law, whose scope within the socio-political and juridical system of Yugoslavia has for long extended not only to the workings of the public administration, but also to all State organs, and to self-managed organizations and groups as well. The 1963 constitutions broadened this principle, defining it as the principle of constitutionality and legality, and in the 1974 constitutions very particular emphasis is laid upon it. The supervision and safeguarding of this principle is the responsibility of the constitutional courts which were created in 1963, and have, since 1972, been nine in number. This article gives a fairly detailed description of the terms of reference, composition, statutes, basic rules of procedure, the scope and effect of judgements made by these nine constitutional courts which, in the author's view, play a part in the implementation and the safeguarding of Yugoslav federal co-operation, and also in the encouragement of self-management, particularly in respect of one essential feature of the latter ? the autonomy of the law which is formed and developed as a result of the regulatory acts which bear upon self-management.

Industrial Associations in the USSR, 1973-1979. Has the establishment of new all-union or republican industrial associations at middle-echelon level in the various branches of industry brought about a change in industrial administration? By close scrutiny of soviet written sources over the last six years, the author has traced the development of these new formations since the promulgation of the relevant Decree of 1973.

East-West Trade: Further Progress? The author begins by examining the causes of the recent slackening in East-West trade, and then turns his attention to those factors which govern long- term exchanges between the two areas (international political situation, structural developments in the industrialized countries, rate of economic growth, etc.) He further examines the short-term situation, and concludes with the overriding importance of the international division of labour, and the harmonious development of East-West exchanges in a spirit of enlightened mutual self-interest.

East-West Industrial Co-operation in the Car Industry and Way of Involving the Countries of Eastern Europe in the International Division of Labour in the West. (Part I). It would seem that greater in-depth analysis of industrial co-operation by individual sector is a pre-requisite for assessment and definition of probable developments in the field of co-operation/competition, and consequently of the effect which this may have upon the stability of the International Division of Labour in the West. The move toward increasingly advanced forms of East-West industrial co-operation in the motor-car industry ? particularly the increasingly frequent use of compensation ? has brought about a radical change: the transition from international exchange to the internationalization of production. This change in character entails integration of the production process, which the traditional import/export view of international trade cannot take account of, and of which it cannot a fortiori appreciate the full extent. This analysis, therefore, is concerned with the extent to which East-West industrial co-operation agreements made between the leading Western car manufacturers ? essentially multi-national firms ? and the countries of Eastern Europe represent a corresponding internationalization of expanding production in the socialist countries. However, the setting-up of production units in the countries of the Eastern zone helps to increase the latter's export potential, and it is important to assess accurately what this might mean in terms of a future threat to western markets, particularly those of Europe. Finally, it is important to investigate the ways in which the International Socialist Division of Labour and the International Division of Labour interrelate, in order to establish whether the activities of representatives of one bloc vis-a-vis the other are carried out in accordance with, or even in furtherance of, the aims of the appropriate IDL, or if on the contrary they are functioning at cross-purposes.