Author : Adam Zwass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,4 MB
Release : 2016-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1315496089
The development and use of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki number among the formative national experiences for both Japanese and Americans as well as for 20th-century Japan-US relations. This volume explores the way in which the bomb has shaped the self-image of both peoples.
Author : Adam Zwass
Publisher :
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Central planning
ISBN : 9780333369821
Author : Jan Winiecki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 23,19 MB
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136462430
First published in 1997, this collection of articles and essays analyses the political economy of reform and change in Eastern Europe during the years of Gorbachev’s perestroika and the years immediately following the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Written by Polish economist Jan Winiecki, between 1984 and 1996, this work explores the issue of the feasibility of reform and change during the period of decline and collapse of communist economic order and, later, the emergence of the capitalist economic order in the post-communist Eastern Europe. Split into three parts, the work considers firstly the failures of Gorbachev’s political economy of reform, secondly the determining factors in the collapse of the Soviet system, and finally the feasibility of the systematic change which began in the wake of its collapse.
Author : Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317567943
This interdisciplinary study offers a comprehensive analysis of the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Providing full historical context and drawing on a wide range of literature, this book explores the continuous economic and social transformation of the post-socialist world. While the future is yet to be determined, understanding the present phase of transformation is critical. The book’s core exploration evolves along three pivots of competitive economic structure, institutional change, and social welfare. The main elements include analysis of the emergence of the socialist economic model; its adaptations through the twentieth century; discussion of the 1990s market transition reforms; post-2008 crisis development; and the social and economic diversity in the region today. With an appreciation for country specifics, the book also considers the urgent problems of social policy, poverty, income inequality, and labor migration. Transition Economies will aid students, researchers and policy makers working on the problems of comparative economics, economic development, economic history, economic systems transition, international political economy, as well as specialists in post-Soviet and Central and Eastern European regional studies.
Author : János Mátyás Kovács
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 1992-06-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134920253
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.
Author : Daniel Gros
Publisher : Financial Times/Prentice Hall
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Provides a comprehensive view of the economic heritage of the reforming countries, of the reforms that are necessary, both from a theoretical and a practical viewpoint; and of the responsibilities of the West.
Author : Minton F. Goldman
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 47,25 MB
Release : 1997-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780765639011
A comprehensive analysis of the progress and problems of post-communist development attending to aspects of transition in the region as a whole and to specific issues in Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech and Slovak Republics, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Rumania, and Yugoslavia. Goldman (political science, Northeastern U.) diagrams the commonalities of development and the diversity of the various countries' rejection of communism, setting forth the difficulties in moving from communist monolithic authoritarianism to pluralistic democracy, coping with threats to progress and stability, and the international implications of these transitions. Paper edition (758-5), $32.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Derek Howard Aldcroft
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
An account of the economic history of Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia in the 20th century. The authors explain why Eastern Europe was already underdeveloped by 1914 before assessing the impact of two World Wars, economic recession and socialist economic planning.
Author : Jozef M. Van Brabant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000303853
The unprecedented economic, political, and social changes that have followed the east European revolutions of late 1989 rank among the epochal events of the twentieth century. The end of the cold war has opened up far-reaching possibilities for international economic cooperation, which may be able to stimulate economic growth in the region and revive interactions with the global economy. This collection of essays comes to grips with the problems of repositioning the new Eastern economies in the global arena. The contributors address four main themes: freeing up foreign economic sectors through trade liberalization, currency convertibility, and greater access to markets for international capital; the disintegration of the trade payment, pricing, and settlements systems based on the transferable ruble; active participation in the key organizations entrusted with international financial, monetary, and trading regimes; and strategies for using international economic assistance to alleviate adjustment costs with ongoing transition policies
Author : Alice Hoffenberg Amsden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674549838
With close attention to the history and institutional realities of the region, The Market Meets Its Match explains the failure of the simplistic market medicine administered in the first five years of transition. Merely "getting the prices right"--Lowering wages and raising interest rates and energy prices - won't improve competitiveness, the authors argue, as long as nonlabor costs such as the quality of goods, product design, outmoded technology, and inefficient distribution channels remain problems. Easing these bottlenecks requires long-term capital accumulation and profit maximization. The institutions necessary for such growth have not developed under Eastern Europe's new "pseudo-capitalism," as the authors demonstrate, and "pseudo-privatization," while distributing state property to citizens, has not provided them with the capital and technology they need to succeed.
