Catching up and falling behind [[electronic resource] ] : post-communist transformation in historical perspective / / David A. Dyker

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450180103321
• Autore: Dyker David A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Imperial College Press, c2004
• ISBN: 1-281-86659-8; 9786611866594; 1-86094-599-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (388 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.947
• Soggetti: Economics - Europe; Electronic books.; Europe, Eastern Economic conditions 21st century
• 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: Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Transforming The Post-Socialist Economies: Patterns and Paradoxes; 2 Nomenklatura Nationalism - The Key to an Understanding of the New East European Politics?; 3 The Structural Origins of the Russian Economic Crisis; 4 Technology and Structure in the Polish Economy Under Transition and Globalisation; 5 Trade Policy for the Countries of the Former Soviet Union (FSU): What Can the Advanced Industrial Countries Do to Help?; 6 The Dynamic Impact on the Central-East European Economies of Accession to the European Union: Social Capability and Technology Absorption; 7 "East"-"West" Networks and their Alignment: Industrial Networks in Hungary and Slovenia8 Key Actors in the Process of Innovation and Technology Transfer in the Context of Economic Transition; 9 Technology Exchange and the Foreign Business Sector in Russia; 10 Building the Knowledge-Based Economy in Countries in Transition: From Concepts to Policies; 11 Economic Performance in the Transition Economies: A Comparative Perspective; 12 Building Social Capability for Economic Catch-Up: The Experience and Prospects of the Post-Socialist Countries; 13 What Transition Has Learned from Economics - and What Economics ; Has Learned from TransitionIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: In this collection of essays David A Dyker explores some of the mostdifficult and fascinating aspects of the process of transition fromautocratic ""real socialism"" to a capitalism that is sometimesdemocratic, sometimes authoritarian. The stress is on the economicdimension of transformation, but the author sets the economic dramafirmly within a political economy framework and a historicalperspective. Trends in key economic variables are analysed against thebackground of the struggle between different social and politicalgroups for power and command over resources. While the book pays dueattent