This book covers a wide variety of aspects of transition in Central and Southeast Europe and the CIS, including the socialist legacy, privatization and growth, skills, and banking reforms. It also covers the evolution of the global economy beyond transition, looking at complexity, risk...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. New pragmatism for new times -- Chapter 3. Political system and socio-economic development -- Chapter 4. People’s planet -- Chapter 5. Leadership: economics and politics of great change -- Chapter 6. One-third of the century of transformation -- Chapter 7....

In this book, one of Germany's most influential economists describes his country's economy, the largest in the European Union and the third largest in the world, and analyzes its weaknesses: poor GDP growth performance, high unemployment due to a malfunctioning labor market, and an unsustainable...