Socialist Economies and the Transition to the Market: A Guide

ISBN-13: 9780415075800 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 576 str.

Ian Jeffries

Opis

Central planning might be disappearing from large parts of what was the socialist world but viable economic systems are yet to emerge to take its place. Integrating these countries within the international economic system and developing market economies within them are likely to remain amongst the most pressing of economic problems for the forseeable future. The Socialist Economies and the Transition to the Market is unique in providing a detailed account of each of the individual socialist countries as well as an analysis of the various routes they might take to the market. Whilst some problems are common to all command economies, others are confined to particular countries. Consequently this unique work of reference includes chapters which outline the main feature of Soviet-type economies, foreign trade and its reform, and the various schemes which have been put forward for the transformation of these economies. But it also includes chapters on individual countries, ranging from Cuba and Albania to the Soviet Union and China.

Recenzje

`This book will prove to be an invaluable source of information for anybody with an interest (academic, busines or otherwise) in the area. Simply brilliant! - Paul Nunn, Manchester Metropolitan University

Spis treści

Introduction Part I The socialist economies outside Eastern Europe 1 The traditional Soviet economic system 2 Foreign trade: the rise and fall of Comecon 3 The Soviet Union 4 Mongolia: from people’s republic to democracy and the market 5 China 6 Cuba 7 North Korea 8 Vietnam Part II Eastern Europe to 1989 9 Albania 10 Bulgaria 11 Czechoslovakia 12 The German Democratic Republic 13 Hungary 14 Poland 15 Romania 16 Yugoslavia Part III The transition from command to market economies in Eastern Europe 17 General issues 18 Albania 19 Bulgaria 20 Czechoslovakia 21 East Germany: German economic and monetary union 22 Hungary 23 Poland 24 Romania 25 Yugoslavia

O autorze

Ian Jeffries (University of Wales, Swansea, UK)