This work uses a property rights perspective to analyse why there is such widespread resistance to change in the Soviet Economic System. Jan Winiecki argues that a cost-effective way of removing the resistance of the parasitic ruling stratum would be a system of compensatory payments.
This work uses a property rights perspective to analyse why there is such widespread resistance to change in the Soviet Economic System. Jan Winiecki ...
First published in 1987, this is an analysis of the contemporary breakdown of political and economic systems within the Eastern European communist countries. Rather than passively following the developments of this crisis, the author seeks instead to identify the reasons for failure and to examine alternative policies that offer solutions to these problems. Jan Winiecki's work offers a comparative study of the Soviet-type economies of the East with the market economies of the West; providing a cause and effect analysis of each model, with possible scenarios for their future prospects.
First published in 1987, this is an analysis of the contemporary breakdown of political and economic systems within the Eastern European communist cou...
Jan Winiecki explores the various problems that the West must deal with in order to remain an efficient competitor in the world economy. These, he argues, are primarily consequences of the ever-expanding welfare state; consequences that are not only economic but also socio-psychological and, therefore, political. The author also considers the evolution of Western Europe and the USA from a new perspective, noting the 'Europeanization' of US economic policies and regulation and the 'Americanization' of polices and regulation in some European countries. The book concludes that the main...
Jan Winiecki explores the various problems that the West must deal with in order to remain an efficient competitor in the world economy. These, he arg...
These papers examine the nations that make up the so-called 'New-Europe', to look at the economic competitiveness of these states in comparison with each other and with the rest of Europe.
These papers examine the nations that make up the so-called 'New-Europe', to look at the economic competitiveness of these states in comparison with e...
First published in 1997, this collection of articles and essays analyses the political economy of reform and change in Eastern Europe during the years of Gorbachev's perestroika and the years immediately following the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Written by Polish economist Jan Winiecki, between 1984 and 1996, this work explores the issue of the feasibility of reform and change during the period of decline and collapse of communist economic order and, later, the emergence of the capitalist economic order in the post-communist Eastern Europe. Split into three...
First published in 1997, this collection of articles and essays analyses the political economy of reform and change in Eastern Europe during the years...
