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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783185903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge in association with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, 1992
• ISBN: 1-134-92025-3; 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: 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.