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Socialist Economies in Transition
Appraisals of the Market Mechanism
9781852784386 Edward Elgar Publishing
Socialist Economies in Transition provides a coherent critique of economic reform in Eastern Europe which, it is argued, will create not prosperity but high levels of unemployment and severe economic dislocation. The authors show how the application of neo-classical economic theory will, in reality, prove unsuccessful and explain why, despite the revolutionary upheavals of 1989 and the immense effort to discard the restraints of planning, the intuitive mechanisms and practices of the free market have been so slow to appear.
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Socialist Economies in Transition provides a coherent critique of economic reform in Eastern Europe which, it is argued, will create not prosperity but high levels of unemployment and severe economic dislocation. The authors show how the application of neoclassical economic theory will, in reality, prove unsuccessful and explain why, despite the revolutionary upheavals of 1989 and the immense effort to discard the restraints of planning, the intuitive mechanisms and practices of the free market have been so slow to appear.
This volume offers an alternative route to economic reform, based on post Keynesian and Kaleckian traditions that combine individual diversity with control over the key sectors of the economy to maintain an acceptable level of stability and growth.
This exciting and provocative book will be essential reading for all those concerned with the political economy of Eastern Europe.
This volume offers an alternative route to economic reform, based on post Keynesian and Kaleckian traditions that combine individual diversity with control over the key sectors of the economy to maintain an acceptable level of stability and growth.
This exciting and provocative book will be essential reading for all those concerned with the political economy of Eastern Europe.
Critical Acclaim
‘This excellent collection of articles serves as an argument for caution in interpreting where the formerly socialist economics are going. . . or why they began their transition to whatever in the late 1980s. . . This book provides a valuable collection of essays coherently addressed to this important historical moment and process. . . Social economists should be particularly interested in this book’s descriptions of, and central concern with, the social costs of these historical transformations. The essays are uniformly well written and easily accessible to an undergraduate student.’
– Christopher J. Niggle, Review of Social Economy
– Christopher J. Niggle, Review of Social Economy
Contributors
Contributors: S.J. Gedeon, C. Gehrke, B. Horvat, M. Knell, T. Kowalik, H.D. Kurz, K. Laski, E. Nell, C. Rider, H. Sinoracka, W. Yang
