The events in August in the Soviet Union demonstrated drastically the difficulties faced by the countries of Eastern Europe in the transition to a market-based system. The following article analyzes the specific distoritions in their economies which this process involves. The author argues in...

Die Planwirtschaften in Osteuropa sind zusammengebrochen und haben sich in Richtung Marktwirtschaft orientiert. Das Buch analysiert die Gründe für die Aufgabe der Planwirtschaft und diskutiert die Herausforderungen einer systematischen Transformation. Die Anpassung wird durch negative...

The events in August in the Soviet Union demonstrated drastically the difficulties faced by the countries of Eastern Europe in the transition to a market-based system. The following article analyzes the specific distoritions in their economies which this process involves. The author argues in...

The process of EU integration has intensified in the 1980s and early 1990s. The desire of a number of central and eastern European countries to join the EU is often seen as a threat to the continuation of this process. How wide should the radius of EU enlargement be? Which forms of integration...