Introduction, by R. W. Bartlett.--Can capitalism compete? By R. W. Miller.--The growth of competition, by S. H. Slichter.--Free economy versus planned economy, by L. Erhard.--Confusion of tongues on the question of the economic order, by L. Erhard.--Latest from inside Russia, by J. Fromm.--New...

Using $2$20 (purchasing power parity) per capita daily income as the definition of middle class, majority of households in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) have become middle class by 2007, which is especially impressive given that around 40% of households were still considered poor in 1991....

The authors describe and analyze all the programs with the help of which shops, restaurants, and service establishments have been privatized in the three most advanced postcommunist countries and provide detailed quantitative evidence concerning all aspects of the small privatization process