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Reform and transformation in Eastern Europe : Soviet-type economics on the threshold of change / edited by Janos Matyas Kovacs and Marton Tardos.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kovacs J Staff, Corporate Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe, Eastern--Economic conditions--1989-.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Europe, Eastern--Economic policy--1989-.
- Soviet Union--Economic conditions--1985-1991.
- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Economic policy--1986-1991.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (347 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge in association with the Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, 1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Can the economics of Eastern Europe make the dramatic transition from centrally-planned to market-led economics? This book tries to understand the intellectual background behind this change and the problems of managing it.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Prologue; Crossing the threshold; Reform economics and economic theory and the west; missed opportunities; Introduction to Part I; The 'socialist calculation debate' and reform discussions in socialist countries; The reform of Soviet socialism as a search for systemic rationality: A systems theoretical view; An organizational theory of the socialist economy; Reform economics and western economic theory: Unexploited opportunities; Some institutional failures of socialist market economies; a dynamic market and institutional theory approach
- On firms, hierarchies and economic reformsSoviet reforms and western neo-classical economics; Reform economics and economic theory and the east; separation from Stalinism incomplete; Introduction to Part II; Economic reform in a bargaining economy; From revisionism to pragmatism: Sketches to a self-portrait of a 'reform economist'; Soviet economic reform in historical perspective; Reform economics and bureaucracy; Reformability of the 'objective economic laws' of socialism; Between reform and transformation; la recherche; Introduction to Part III
- The theoretical and psychological obstacles to market-oriented reform in ChinaThe scope of economic reforms in socialist countries; The political conditions of economic reform in socialism; Opposition against market-type reforms in centrally-planned economies; Macroeconomic policy for the transitional reforms in the centrally-planned economies; The property rights in Hungary; Epilogue; Compassionate doubts about reform economics (economic science, ideology, politics); Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-92025-3
- 0-429-22914-3
- 1-280-18274-1
- 0-203-28329-5
- 9786610182749
- 0-203-16769-4
- 9780429229145
- OCLC:
- 559720117
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