Going global : transition from plan to market in the world economy / edited by Padma Desai. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Desai, Padma.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International economic integration.

Central planning.

Privatization.

Commercial policy.

Investments, Foreign.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 507 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The transition of the former socialist and otherwise centrally planned economies into the world trading and financial system has become a major concern to both policymakers and social scientists. In this book, experts from diverse economies address the principal issues raised by this transition. The chapters, which cover fourteen countries of East and Central Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Asia, are the result of a three-year research project. Although the contributors share a unity of design and analysis, each author focuses on the issues most relevant to the country or countries under discussion.

In her introductory essay, project leader Padma Desai synthesizes the findings and cuts through recent analytical confusion over such issues as "shock therapy" versus gradualism. Rather than advocate "the faster the better," she discusses the possible difficulty of sustaining rapid transition reforms and globalization in the face of rising unemployment.

Contents:

Czech Republic / Josef C. Brada and Ali M. Kutan

Hungary / Andrʹas Blahʹo and Pʹeter Gʹal

East Germany / Jürgen von Hagen

Poland / Stanislaw Wellisz

Baltic states / Kalev Kukk

Finland / Urpo Kivikari

Russia / Padma Desai

Kazakhstan / Heiner Flassbeck, Lutz Hoffmann, and Ludger Lindlar

Uzbekistan / Michael Connolly

China / Richard S. Eckaus

Vietnam / David Dollar and Börje Ljunggren

India / Manmohan Agarwal.

Notes:

"Papers were discussed at a conference in Helsinki in the early summer of 1995"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-262-27158-3

0-585-13348-4