1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450028803321

Titolo

Reform and transformation in Eastern Europe [[electronic resource] ] : Soviet-type economics on the threshold of change / / edited by János Mátyás Kovács and Márton Tardos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge in association with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, 1992

ISBN

0-429-22914-3

1-280-18274-1

0-203-28329-5

9786610182749

0-203-16769-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (347 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KovácsJános Mátyás

TardosMárton

Disciplina

338.947

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Europe, Eastern Economic conditions 1989-

Europe, Eastern Economic policy 1989-

Soviet Union Economic conditions 1985-1991

Soviet Union Economic policy 1986-1991

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Prologue; Crossing the threshold; Reform economics and economic theory and the west; missed opportunities; Introduction to Part I; The 'socialist calculation debate' and reform discussions in socialist countries; The reform of Soviet socialism as a search for systemic rationality: A systems theoretical view; An organizational theory of the socialist economy; Reform economics and western economic theory: Unexploited opportunities; Some institutional failures of socialist market economies; a dynamic market and institutional theory approach

On firms, hierarchies and economic reformsSoviet reforms and western neo-classical economics; Reform economics and economic theory and the east; separation from Stalinism incomplete; Introduction to Part II;



Economic reform in a bargaining economy; From revisionism to pragmatism: Sketches to a self-portrait of a 'reform economist'; Soviet economic reform in historical perspective; Reform economics and bureaucracy; Reformability of the 'objective economic laws' of socialism; Between reform and transformation;  la recherche; Introduction to Part III

The theoretical and psychological obstacles to market-oriented reform in ChinaThe scope of economic reforms in socialist countries; The political conditions of economic reform in socialism; Opposition against market-type reforms in centrally-planned economies; Macroeconomic policy for the transitional reforms in the centrally-planned economies; The property rights in Hungary; Epilogue; Compassionate doubts about reform economics (economic science, ideology, politics); Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783695303321

Autore

Oskamp Stuart

Titolo

Attitudes and opinions [[electronic resource] /] / by Stuart Oskamp, P. Wesley Schultz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2005

ISBN

1-4106-1196-5

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (720 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SchultzP. Wesley

Disciplina

303.3/8

Soggetti

Public opinion

Attitude (Psychology)

Public opinion polls

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; I Approaches to Studying Attitudes and Opinions; II Public Opinion on Socially Important Topics; References; Name Index; Subject Index



Sommario/riassunto

Notable advances resulting from new research findings, measurement approaches, widespread uses of the Internet, and increasingly sophisticated approaches to sampling and polling, have stimulated a new generation of attitude scholars. This extensively revised edition captures this excitement, while remaining grounded in scholarly research.Attitudes and Opinions, 3/e maintains one of the main goals of the original edition--breadth of coverage. The book thoroughly reviews both implicit and explicit measures of attitudes, the structure and function of attitudes, the nature of public