Economic Systems, Institutions and Scarcity -- Scarcity, Institutions and Economic Behavior -- The Rise of Capitalism -- The Rise of Socialism -- The Private-Property Free-Market Economy -- Basic Institutions of Capitalism -- Exchange in a Private Property Capitalist Economy -- Production in a...

1 Stabilization programs — assumptions, background, implementation -- 2 Postsocialist economy and stabilization policy -- 3 Stabilization in Yugoslavia -- 4 Polish hyperinflation and stabilization 1989–1991 -- 5 Stabilization in Viet Nam -- 6 Stabilization, transformation and growth....

Most economies with a legacy of central planning are changing in fundamental ways. With the rapid economic, social, and political changes in these economies an update of the first edition of Historically Planned Economies (HPEs): A Guide to the Data, has become necessary. In addition to...

"From less than 5 percent in 1980, the share of residents from the former Republic of Yugoslavia in the total foreign population in Switzerland rose to almost 25% in 2000, to become one of the largest foreign communities. The largest increase occurs mostly between 1985 and 1998 and represents a...

The Yugoslavian economic system, combining, as it does, elements of Marxist socialism with many aspects of free enterprise, represents a challenging experiment which is being closely watched by students of economic and political theory. The system has att