Unemployment in capitalist, communist, and post-communist economies
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Bibliographic Information
Unemployment in capitalist, communist, and post-communist economies
(St. Antony's/Macmillan series)
Macmillan , St. Martin's Press in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1995
- : uk
- : us
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  Gunma
  Saitama
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  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-227) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
No modern economy can escape open unemployment as long as free labour and a free labour market exist. In any modern economy, there exists a tension between economic individualism and economic collectivism, but market forces cannot forever be denied. While Part 1 examines open and hidden unemployment in capitalist market economies and socialist command economies prior to 1989, Part 2 concentrates on the issue of unemployment in post-communist economies between 1989 and the end of 1993. Finally, Part 3 summarizes, re- examines, and expands on those selected dimensions of the issue of unemployment that are deemed currently to be relevant to both Western and post-communist economies. Although the book is primarily about unemployment, open as well as hidden, it also is about economic systems and their transformation and, hence, about the role of the state in the economy.
Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures - Introduction - PART 1: UNEMPLOYMENT IN CAPITALIST AND COMMUNIST ECONOMIES - Theories of Open Unemployment - Measurement and Rates of Open Unemployment - Differences in Open Unemployment - Open Unemployment Under Command Socialism - Hidden Unemployment - Economic Reforms Under Command Socialism - Relative Economic Performance - Unemployment in Yugoslavia and China - PART 2: UNEMPLOYMENT IN POST-COMMUNIST ECONOMIES - The Collapse of Communism - Unemployment Compensation - Registered Unemployment - Eastern Germany - Soviet Union and Russia - Open Unemployment and the Population - PART 3: SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS, PROSPECTS - Economic Systems and Unemployment - Participation in Economic Activity - Causes of Open Unemployment - Outlook - Notes - Select Bibliography Index
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