1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783484003321

Autore

Dyker David A

Titolo

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

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

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

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797293203321

Autore

Avakov Alexander V.

Titolo

Two thousand years of economic statistics . Volume 2 By Country : world population, GDP and PPP / / Alexander V. Avakov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Algora Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-62894-137-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Disciplina

330.9

Soggetti

Economic history

Economic indicators

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.

Nota di contenuto

""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Population, by Country""; ""2. GDP at PPP Per Capita, by Country""; ""3. GDP at PPP, by Country""; ""Appendix: Methodology and Definitions""; ""References""