Transition and beyond : essays in honor of Mario Nuti /

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Imprint:Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Description:xix, 307 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:[Studies in economic transition]
[Studies in economic transition].
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6621705
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Other authors / contributors:Estrin, Saul.
Kołodko, Grzegorz W.
Uvalić, Milica.
ISBN:0230546978 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780230546974 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Socialist Legacy
  • The Rise and Fall of Socialist Planning
  • Life Cycle of the Centrally Planned Economy: Why Soviet Growth Rates Peaked in the 1950s
  • Is Transition Normal Economic Development? The Burden of Socialist Institutions
  • Complexity and Systemic Failure
  • Part II
  • Lessons from the Successes and Failures of the Transition from Communism to the Market Economy
  • Human Capital and Economic Performance: What Do We Learn from the Experience of the Transition Countries?
  • Banks and Central Banks in the Transition
  • Investment, Wages and Corporate Governance During the Transition: Evidence from Slovenian Firms
  • How Different is the Serbian Transition?
  • Russia-EU Economic Relations: The Case of Natural Gas
  • Part III. Beyond Transition
  • Privatization in Transition Economies: An Evaluation
  • Are there Optimal Transition Trajectories
  • The Great Post-Communist Change and Uncertain Future of the World
  • The Challenge of Building the Financial Sector in Eastern and Central Europe
  • A Simple Framework for the Analysis of Pensions, Fiscal Policy and the Distribution of Risk in Transition Economies
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Socialist Legacy
  • The Rise and Fall of Socialist Planning
  • Life Cycle of the Centrally Planned Economy: Why Soviet Growth Rates Peaked in the 1950s
  • Is Transition Normal Economic Development? The Burden of Socialist Institutions
  • Complexity and Systemic Failure
  • Part II. Transition: From Plan to Market
  • Lessons from the Successes and Failures of the Transition from Communism to the Market Economy
  • Human Capital and Economic Performance: What Do We Learn from the Experience of the Transition Countries?
  • Banks and Central Banks in the Transition
  • Investment, Wages and Corporate Governance During the Transition: Evidence from Slovenian Firms
  • How Different is the Serbian Transition?
  • Russia-EU Economic Relations: The Case of Natural Gas
  • Part III. Beyond Transition
  • Privatization in Transition Economies: An Evaluation
  • Are there Optimal Transition Trajectories
  • The Great Post-Communist Change and Uncertain Future of the World
  • The Challenge of Building the Financial Sector in Eastern and Central Europe
  • A Simple Framework for the Analysis of Pensions, Fiscal Policy and the Distribution of Risk in Transition Economies