Economic law is a set of legal rules for regulating economic activity. In the
legal system of the Soviet Union, economic law was the legal theory and system under which economic relations were a legal discipline independent of
criminal law and
civil law
Civil law may refer to:
* Civil law (common law), the part of law that concerns private citizens and legal persons
* Civil law (legal system), or continental law, a legal system originating in continental Europe and based on Roman law
** Private la ...
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In the Soviet legal system, the purpose of the economic law was to regulate the relations arising from the economic activities. The theory of the independence of the economic law was pursued after the
21st Congress of the CPSU
The 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union took place in Moscow, USSR 27 January - 5 February 1959. It was a mid-term or "Extraordinary" Congress, timed so that Khrushchev could try to consolidate his power over rivals after the ...
of 1959, with the principal proponent being
V.V. Laptev
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Arts and entertainment
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People
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. After debate, this position was adopted by the decrees of the
CPSU
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and the
USSR Council of Ministers during 1970–1975 and finalized in the
1977 Soviet Constitution
The 1977 Constitution of the Soviet Union, officially the Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was the constitution of the Soviet Union adopted on 7 October 1977 until its dissolution on 21 December 1991 ...
.
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See also
*Constitutional economics
Constitutional economics is a research program in economics
Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of ...
*Law and economics
Law and economics, or economic analysis of law, is the application of microeconomic theory to the analysis of law, which emerged primarily from scholars of the Chicago school of economics. Economic concepts are used to explain the effects of la ...
*Political economy
Political economy is the study of how economic systems (e.g. markets and national economies) and political systems (e.g. law, institutions, government) are linked. Widely studied phenomena within the discipline are systems such as labour ...
References
External links
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Soviet law
Economy of the Soviet Union
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