China?s Great Leap Forward (GLF) of 1958-61, a campaign of unprecedented mobilization efforts to achieve rapid industrialization, ended as a catastrophe. National grain production collapsed and a widespread famine claimed millions of human lives. This paper reviews a growing economic literature...

This study does not call for any changes of emphasis regarding the political climate in nowadays Hungary. I am still convinced that the main trouble lies in the replacement of democracy by autocracy. What I set out to do here is to augment the conclusions made already, by reviewing the events of...

The Indian growth spurt of the 1980s has led DeLong (<CitationRef CitationID="CR6">2003</CitationRef>), Rodrik & Subramaniam (IMF Staff Papers 52(2):193–228, <CitationRef CitationID="CR38">2005</CitationRef>) and Kohli (Economic and Political Weekly 41(14):1361–1370, <CitationRef CitationID="CR18">2006</CitationRef>) to question the need for market reforms in the 1990s and the supporters of liberalization to argue that it...</citationref></citationref></citationref>

The scarcity of educated and experienced managers and the path dependency influence the corporate governance of the post-communist enterprises. Using the standard microeconomic tools, the paper investigates the possible similarities between the old "command economy management" and the behavior...

This paper looks at the Austrian School of Economics from the subjectivist perspective. It begins by reviewing the major architects in the Austrian School, Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich A. Hayek, Murray N. Rothbard, Ludwig M. Lachmann and Isaac M. Kirzner. The paper then elucidates...

This study shows that China.s post-1949 state-led industrialization has closely followed an underlying path that began in the late nineteenth century. It was initiated by pressing national defence needs and has since been motivated by the same and strong incentives for a faster catch-up with the...

According to the consensus view it was physical capital accumulation that primarily drove economic growth during the early socialist period. Growth models incorporating both human and physical capital accumulation (Caballe and Santos 1993, Barro and Sala-i-Martin 2004) lead to the conclusion...

The Great Leap Forward (GLF) disaster, characterized by a collapse of grain output, and the associated famine in China between 1959 and 1961, can be attributed to a systemic failure in central planning. Encouraged by unrealistic expectations for agricultural productivity gains from...

This article was published in the Czech Journal “Plánované hospodářství” in 1967. This was the time of rapid changes both in the Czechoslovak economic and political theory as well as in actual economic and political systems that culminated in the “Prague Spring” of 1968. These...