ABSTRACT

Can the economics of Eastern Europe make the dramatic transition from centrally-planned to market-led economics? This book tries to understand the intellectual background behind this change and the problems of managing it.

part |2 pages

Part I Reform economics and economic theory and the west—missed opportunities

chapter |2 pages

Introduction to Part I

chapter 4|17 pages

Reform economics and western economic theory

Unexploited opportunities

part |2 pages

Part II Reform economics and economic theory and the east— separation from Stalinism incomplete

chapter |2 pages

Introduction to Part II

chapter 9|6 pages

From revisionism to pragmatism

Sketches to a self-portrait of a ‘reform economist’

part |2 pages

Part III Between reform and transformation—à la recherche

chapter |2 pages

Introduction to Part III

chapter |2 pages

Epilogue

chapter |33 pages

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