Industrial reform in socialist countries : from restructuring to revolution /

This collection of country studies, by academics from the UK, the US, Australia, and Israel, covers selected reform measures from around 1980 to early 1991 in Albania, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, the former German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Mongolia, North Korea, Poland, Romania, the former Soviet Union, Vietnam, and Yugoslavia. Chapters vary considerably in length, aspects of economic reform discussed, use of primary and secondary sources, and scope of chapter bibliographies. This book has more recent information and broader geographical coverage than Jan Adam, Economic Reforms in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe since the 1960s (CH, May'89), which deals with the former Soviet Union, Czechoslovaia, Hungary, Poland, and the former German Democratic Republic. However, the Jeffries volume does not address the transformation of countries from socialist centrally planned economies to capitalist market economies as directly and systematically as two recent volumes by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development: The Transition to a Market Economy ed. by Paul Marer, (2 v., 1991), and Reforming the Economies of Central and Eastern Europe (1992). Advanced undergraduate to faculty. M. Bornstein; University of Michigan