Economics and Politics of Transition

1. Front Matter

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2. Editor’s Introduction

   1. Editor’s Introduction

      • Christopher Saunders

      Pages 1-22

3. Concepts, Theories and Aims

   1. Transition of Economic Systems: Basic Aspects

      • Norbert Kloten

      Pages 23-46

   2. Transition from Command to Market Economies

      • Ruben Yevstigneev

      Pages 47-61

   3. Concepts of Transition in Socialist Economies

      • Kazimierz Laski

      Pages 63-72

   4. The Neoliberal Concept of Economic Order

      • Helmut Leipold

      Pages 73-96

4. Transformation Policies in Eastern Europe

   1. Policies for Stabilisation and Adjustment in the Transition Period

      • Eduard Hochreiter, Peter Backé

      Pages 97-109

   2. Monetary and Financial Policies in the Transition Period

      • Philipp Rieger

      Pages 111-124

   3. Foreign Economic Relations in Eastern Europe’s Transition

      • Jan Stankovsky

      Pages 125-142

5. Agriculture in the Transition Process

   1. Problems in East European Agriculture

      • Carlo Boffito

      Pages 157-165

   2. Agriculture in the Hungarian Reform

      • Ivan Benet

      Pages 167-173

   3. The Restructuring of East European Agriculture

      • Karl-Eugen Wädekin

      Pages 175-183

6. Country Studies of Transitions — West

   1. West Germany: The Monetary Reform of 1948 and the Rebirth of the Market Economy

      • Josef Molsberger

      Pages 185-202

   2. Austria: Solutions in a Unique Political Environment

      • Hannes Androsch

      Pages 203-211

   3. France: Two Big Transitions

      • Bernard Cazes

      Pages 213-217

7. Country Studies of Transitions — East

   1. Czechoslovakia: Strategies for Systemic Chance

      • Karel Kouba

      Pages 221-230

   2. East Germany: Transformation to a Social Market: Opportunities and Risks

      • Wolfgang Heinrichs

      Pages 231-243

   3. East Germany: A Special Case or a Precedent?

      • Jens Kammerath

      Pages 245-252

   4. Hungary: Issues for Privatisation

      • Lajos Bokros

      Pages 253-272

   5. Hungary: Transformation in Progress

      • Márton Tardos

      Pages 273-293

Highlighting recent revolutionary changes, this volume deals with the ongoing transformation from central planning towards more efficient economic structures in Eastern and Central Europe and the former USSR. Political democracy and the creation of market economies have now become realistic aims but the process of reform is only just beginning and is likely to take many years. The papers and discussions deal with systematic changes, deregulation, abolition of price controls and macroeconomic fiscal and monetary policies needed to stabilise the economics and to implement appropriate structural changes.

• agriculture
• Eastern Europe
• economic system
• economics
• economy
• Germany
• joint venture
• macroeconomics
• planning
• privatisation
• restructuring
• science and technology
• structural change
• transformation
• transition

...Her excellent book will certainly be placed on the reading list by teachers of very many courses, myself included....Marie Lavigne is an outstanding, highly knowledgeable representative....One of the book's main merits is its very rich store of information. It contains much data and a great number of lucid and informative tables.' - János Kornai, Harvard University and Collegium Budapest

• Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, UK

  Christopher T. Saunders

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