"The Evolution of Economic Systems" is dedicated to Ota Sik on the occasion of his 70th birthday. It honours Ota Sik's economics, his political life and his social and humane concerns. His commitment to truth, his challenging of established polit-economic structures and idealogical borderlines...

Can the economics of Eastern Europe make the dramatic transition from centrally-planned to market-led economics? This book tries to understand the intellectual background behind this change and the problems of managing it