Winds of change : economic transition in Central and Eastern Europe

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Winds of change : economic transition in Central and Eastern Europe

Daniel Gros and Alfred Steinherr

Longman, 1995

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780582102705

Description

This major textbook provides one of the most authoritative and comprehensive analyses of the economic reform process underway in central and eastern Europe following the collapse of the old political and economic regimes.

Table of Contents

Preface. Acknowledgements. Part 1: The rise and decline of communism. Part 2: Transition and reconstruction. Part 3: Reforms in Central Europe. Part 4: The former Soviet Union. Part 5: The New Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals.
Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780582102712

Description

This study provides an overview of the economic options available to Eastern Europe following the collapse of political and economic regimes in 1989. Analyzing the key ingredients of economic reform, the text describes the historical background of the region from the Russian Revolution to the collapse of Communism. This book is aimed at upper-level undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students, as well as political scientists with an interest in the region.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 The rise and decline of communism - an overview: from prewar Russia to the Socialist Revolution and the new economic policy
  • the need for reform - always present, never achieved
  • socialist institutional design and the obsession with growth. Part 2 Transition and reconstruction: scope and timing of reforms
  • price liberalization
  • external liberalization
  • macroeconomic stabilization
  • privatization
  • financial sector reforms. Part 3 Reforms in Central Europe: German unification - an extreme example of "Big Bang"
  • beyond stabilization - the economic transformation of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland
  • Yugoslavia - is economics pleading against disintegration. Part 4 Reforms in the successor states of the Soviet Union: disintegration of the Soviet Union
  • Russia - pas-de-deux between destabilization and reforms. Part 5 The new Europe from the Atlantic to the Ural: a European free-trade zone
  • the cost of reconstruction.

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