In the transition from the command economy to the market economy it is becoming more and more urgent for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe to readjust their social policies and reorganise their social security systems. In doing so, the conflict between social solidarity and individual...

The ongoing conversion of the economies of former socialist countries into market economies has so far suffered from the lack of a theory of system transformation (policy) which indicates the means of achieving the desired objectives and makes it possible to evaluate the transformation policies...