From shock to therapy : the political economy of postsocialist transformation
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Bibliographic Information
From shock to therapy : the political economy of postsocialist transformation
Oxford University Press, 2000
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  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
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"A study prepared for the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU/WIDER)"
Bibliography: p. [427]-442
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The great transformation undertaken by the countries of the former communist bloc exhibits immense diversity-in terms of initial conditions, shifting target models, consistency, paths, speed, progress to date, and economic performance. This is the first comprehensive study of the economics and politics of postsocialism to be written by an author so deeply-and so successfully-involved in the reform process.
Many people writing on the reform process offer advice that is not really credible; as a member of the Polish government, and architect of the successful Polish reform, Grzegorz Kolodko actually solved many of the difficulties of transition, which allows him to come forward here with policy proposals and long-term forecasts.
The treatment of the transition from plan to market as a historical process is an important feature of the book. The author claims that there is no historical fatality-that sound policies in the present are more determining than the favourable or unfavourable legacies of the past. The aim is to create and maintain the conditions for sustainable growth and durable development.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Transition from socialism: where to?
- 2. Different points of departure
- 3. Systemic change and economic performance
- 4. Transitional recession: expectations, reality, interpretations
- 5. The Washington Consensus revisited
- 6. Transition policy and development strategy
- 7. Transition from plan to market
- 8. Financial reform and policy
- 9. The redistribution of the costs and benefits of transition
- 10. Marketization and democratization
- 11. From recovery to sustained growth
- 12. The internationalization of postsocialist economies
- 13. The long-term prospects
- 14. Doubts and conclusions
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