Economic Reform and Political Change in Eastern Europe

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2. Introduction

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3. Planning, Markets and Political Systems

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   2. Economics

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   3. Politics

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4. The Politics of Reform in Czechoslovakia and Hungary

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   2. The Political Preconditions of Reform

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   3. The Decision to Reform

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   4. The Logic of Reform Thought — from Economics to Politics

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   5. Economic Reform and Political Crisis in Czechoslovakia 1963–8

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   6. The Political Limits to Economic Reform in Hungary 1968–78

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   7. Conclusion

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5. Back Matter

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Economic reform - the introduction of elements of the market into a planned economy - has been the central political problem for socialist states for at least three decades. This book seeks to elucidate the nature of the problem through a reconsideration of the general theoretical issues, and through a comparative analysis of the practice of economic reform in two countries - Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

• Eastern Europe
• economics
• economy
• Hungary
• planned economy
• planning

• University of Leicester, UK

  Judy Batt

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