Integration of the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) into the European Union (EU) has become more a question of timing than a question whether it will or should be made. Since one of the objectives of the EU is to establish a system ensuring competition in the internal market is not...

1. The place of prices in a socialist economy -- 2. Objectives of the study -- 3. Institutional background -- 4. Outline of the monograph -- I: Value and Price in Theory and Economic Policy -- 1: Value and price theory in Eastern Europe -- 2: Prices and price policies in Eastern Europe -- 3:...

The particular emphasis of Military R&D After the Cold War is on questions of conversion from military to civil purposes, and on the scope today for technology transfer between the traditional eastern and western sides of the Cold War. The book contains contributions from both academic analysts...

1. The Influence of Transportation on the Development of Eastern Europe -- 2. Transportation in Poland: Development, Problems and Policies -- 3. Poland’s Maritime Transport -- 4. Agricultural Transportation in Poland -- 5. Regional Transport Development and Policies in Czechoslovakia Since...

1. The new international setting -- 2. Objectives of the study -- 3. Focus of the study -- 4. Terminology -- 5. Remaking the global economic framework? -- 6. A Guide through the volume -- 1: Eastern Europe in transition -- 1. On the meanings of the CMEA -- 2. Recent developments in CMEA...

Virtue ethics is widely recognized as one of three major approaches in contemporary moral philosophy and arguably the most influential normative theory in business ethics. Despite its rich pedigree in Western and Eastern philosophy, most work in contemporary virtue ethics is part of the Western...

Financing retirement is an important aspect of later life that is related to overall healthy living and wellbeing. Very little is known about the attitudes of people towards their individual future retirement plans, accrued savings or even finances once they are into old age. There are no...