PART ONE: THEORIES OF COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS -- 1. Economic Systems -- 2. Economic Planning in Various Settings -- PART TWO: TWO CANONICAL STATE SOCIALISMS -- 3. The Soviet CPE I: The Process of Planning -- 4. The Soviet CPE II: The Process of Implementation -- 5. The Chinese CPE: Planning in an...

part PART I: COMPARATIVE MODELS OF TRANSITION -- chapter 1 The Collapse of the Stalinist Economic System -- chapter 2 The Analytical Framework -- chapter 3 The Cost of Transition -- part PART II: CASE STUDIES IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES -- chapter 4 The Shock Therapy Model of Transition -- chapter 5...

Broad consensus exists that the ability of political actors to make credible commitments is key to development. An important and little-explored determinant of the credibility of political commitments is the existence of organizations that facilitate citizen collective action to sanction...

Anstelle von bisher separierten Betrachtungsansätzen gegenüber Ostasien wird ein ganzheitlicher, d.h. quantitative Faktoren wie qualitative Kräfte umfassender Ansatz vorgeschlagen. Hierfür werden unterschiedliche Kultur- und Wirtschaftsregionen des Westens und Ostasiens gegenübergestellt....