It is shown that in an economy with non-marginal set-up costs on the capital side, which imply a minimum requirement of capital, production may be carried out by capitalist firms only, irrespective of the fact that workers can exchange work for capital so that labour-managed production seems...

The recent experience of Eastern European economies- Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia - is analysed in terms of two simple models, the first model characterises the planned economy and derives an expression for the monetary overhang. The second model analyses the dynamics of transition in...