A "Simple" Analysis of the Transition to the Market

How should the transition to the market be made? What are the principal difficulties in this transition? How long will it take to surmount them? These questions worry every economist today. It would seem that everything has already been said, that there is not a single idea in the arsenal of economic science that has not in one way or another been brought before the court of society. At the same time, our views of this process are obviously incomplete and inchoate. The details are clear, but there is no picture, especially the part that must be drawn by economic theory.