Transforming post-communist political economies /
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| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c1997. |
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| Description: | xi, 514 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2967777 |
Table of Contents:
- I. Overview. Understanding Economic Change / Douglass C. North
- II. Institutional Change, Property Rights, and Corruption. Underground Activity and Institutional Change: Productive, Protective, and Predatory Behavior in Transition Economies / Edgar L. Feige. 1. Property Rights in Transition Economies: A Commentary on What Economists Know / Alexandra Benham and Lee Benham. 2. Rethinking the Theory of Economic Policy: Some Implications of the New Institutionalism / Thrainn Eggertsson. 3. Missed Markets: Implications for Economic Behavior and Institutional Change / Leonid Polishchuk. 4. Fuzzy Property: Rights, Power, and Identity in Transylvania's Decollectivization / Katherine Verdery. 5. Rule Evasion in Transitional Russia / James Leitzel
- III. Transforming Management, Labor, and Production. Restructuring Production Without Market Infrastructure / Judith Thornton. 6. Learning in Networks: Enterprise Behavior in the Former Soviet Union and Contemporary Russia / Yevgeny Kuznetsov. 7. Formal Employment and Survival Strategies After Communism / Simon Johnson, Daniel Kaufman and Oleg Ustenko. 8. Observations on the Speed of Transition in Russia: Prices and Entry / Daniel Berkowitz and David N. DeJong. 9. Social Policy and the Labor Market in Russia During Transition / Alastair McAuley
- IV. Social Trends, Household Behavior, and Social-Sector Policies. Social Costs, Social-Sector Reforms, and Politics in Post-Communist Transformations / Joan M. Nelson. 10. Reform of the Welfare Sector in the Post-Communist Countries: A Normative Approach / Janos Kornai. 11. Social Policy Challenges and Dilemmas in Ex-Socialist Systems / Zsuzsa Ferge. 12. Health Reform in Russia and Central Asia / Jeni Klugman, George Schieber and Timothy Heleniak [et al.]. 13. Vulnerable Populations in Central Europe / Barbara Boyle Torrey, Timothy M. Smeeding and Debra Bailey. 14. Pension Reform in the Post-Communist Transition Economies / Louise Fox. 15. From Safety Nets to Social Policy: Lessons for the Transition Economies from the Developing Countries / Carol Graham
- V. Transforming the Role of the State. Democracy, Social Change, and Economies in Transition / Charles Tilly. 16. The State in a Market Economy / Adam Przeworski. 17. The State as an Ensemble of Economic Actors: Some Inferences from China's Trajectory of Change / Andrew G. Walder. 18. Possible Future Directions for Economies in Transition / Anders Aslund
- VI. Research Priorities for Post-Communist Economies. Research Priorities for Post-Communist Economies : Task Force on Economies in Transition.