Transition economies : political economy in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia

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Title:

Transition economies : political economy in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia

Author:

Myant, M. R. (Martin R.)

ISBN:

9780470596197

Personal Author:

Myant, M. R. (Martin R.)

Publication Information:

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2011.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 391 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Part I The political economy of state socialism -- Chapter 1 The system of state socialism -- Chapter 2 The successes and failures of central planning -- Chapter 3 From reform to breakdown -- Part II Macro-economic transformations: From shock to recovery -- Chapter 4 The courses of transition -- Part III Transition: Policies and alternatives -- Chapter 5 A strategy for transition -- Chapter 6 Alternatives and adaptations -- Part IV The state -- Chapter 7 State capacity and the rule of law -- Chapter 8 State consolidation: Russia in a comparative perspective -- Chapter 9 Limits to an active state -- Chapter 10 Welfare states and regimes -- Part V Micro-economic evolution: New forms of business -- Chapter 11 Enterprises: Shock and survival -- Chapter 12 The growth of new business -- Chapter 13 Privatization -- Chapter 14 A new banking system -- Chapter 15 Enterprises in the period of economic recovery -- Chapter 16 Conclusion: Emerging capitalisms and economic crisis -- Data appendix -- References.

Abstract:

"Global business managers will explore the economic transformation in former communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union with this book. It takes them from the end of central planning to the capitalist varieties of the present. It covers differences between countries in terms of economic performance and integration into the world economy. The chapters examine these differences in terms of historical backgrounds, location and policies pursued. Attention is placed on state forms and the role of the state in development, to political forms and interest representation and to the development of new forms of business organization. This will provide global business managers with a basis for identifying and explaining changes between groupings of countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union."--

Subject Term:

Economic development -- Europe, Eastern.

Economic development -- Europe, Central.

Economic development -- Former Soviet republics.

Geographic Term:

Russia (Federation) -- Economic conditions -- 1991-

Europe, Eastern -- Economic conditions -- 1989-

Asia, Central -- Economic conditions -- 1991-

Added Author:

Drahokoupil, Jan, 1980-

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Transition Economies provides students with an up-to-date and highly comprehensive analysis of the economic transformation in former communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union. With coverage extending from the end of central planning to the capitalist varieties of the present, this text provides a comparative analysis of economic transformation and political-economic diversity that has emerged as a direct result. It covers differences between countries in terms of economic performance and integration into the world economy. Transition Economies seeks to explain and deepen understanding of these differences, chart the emerging forms of capitalism there, and provide country responses to the world financial crisis of 2008-2009.