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The Evolution of Economic Systems

Essays in Honor of Ota Sik

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Kurt Dopfer

    1. University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

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  2. Karl-F. Raible

    1. University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Evolution of Planning Systems: (1) General Evolution of Planning Systems

    1. Socialist Experience and Ota Sik’s Third Way

      • Jiří Kosta
      Pages 177-185

    2. Socialism as a Socio-economic System

      • Branko Horvat
      Pages 186-192

    3. On the Reformability of the Soviet-type Economic Systems

      • Leszek Balcerowicz
      Pages 193-201

    4. Strategic Reappraisal and Short-term Adjustment: The External Economic Policy of Socialist Countries at the Crossroads

      • András Inotai
      Pages 202-212

    5. The Technological Gap in the CMEA Countries: Missing Incentives

      • Friedrich Levcik
      Pages 213-221

  2. The Evolution of Planning Systems: (2) Evolution as Reforms in Eastern Countries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223
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    2. Innovation as the Crucial Problem of Perestroika

      • Harry Maier
      Pages 225-234

    3. Gorbachev’s ‘Radical Reform’ and the Future of the Soviet Planning System

      • Hans-Hermann Höhmann
      Pages 235-244

    4. Success and Failure: Emergence of Economic Reforms in Czechoslovakia and Hungary

      • Tamás Bauer
      Pages 245-255

    5. The State of the Debate on Planning in Hungary

      • Jan Adam
      Pages 256-264

    6. The Evolution of Socialist Economic Theories and the Strategic Options of Reform in China

      • Jinglian Wu
      Pages 265-275

    7. The Evolution of Economic Systems: A Summary

      • Karl-F. Raible
      Pages 276-281

  3. Back Matter

    Pages 283-284
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Honouring Ota Sik's economics, political life, and his social and humane concerns, this book brings together contributions from economists from East and West. It examines principally the evolution of different economic systems.

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  • University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Kurt Dopfer, Karl-F. Raible

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