Extent:
Online-Ressource (xix, 345 p)
ill
24 cm
Type of publication: Book / Working Paper
Language: English
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Prologue; Crossing the threshold; Reform economics and economic theory and the west; missed opportunities; Introduction to Part I; The 'socialist calculation debate' and reform discussions in socialist countries; The reform of Soviet socialism as a search for systemic rationality: A systems theoretical view; An organizational theory of the socialist economy; Reform economics and western economic theory: Unexploited opportunities; Some institutional failures of socialist market economies; a dynamic market and institutional theory approach
On firms, hierarchies and economic reformsSoviet reforms and western neo-classical economics; Reform economics and economic theory and the east; separation from Stalinism incomplete; Introduction to Part II; Economic reform in a bargaining economy; From revisionism to pragmatism: Sketches to a self-portrait of a 'reform economist'; Soviet economic reform in historical perspective; Reform economics and bureaucracy; Reformability of the 'objective economic laws' of socialism; Between reform and transformation; la recherche; Introduction to Part III
The theoretical and psychological obstacles to market-oriented reform in ChinaThe scope of economic reforms in socialist countries; The political conditions of economic reform in socialism; Opposition against market-type reforms in centrally-planned economies; Macroeconomic policy for the transitional reforms in the centrally-planned economies; The property rights in Hungary; Epilogue; Compassionate doubts about reform economics (economic science, ideology, politics); Index
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN: 0-415-06630-1 ; 978-0-415-06630-3 ; 978-0-415-06630-3
Source:
ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012672536