More than fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many issues regarding the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy are still being debated. This book presents an evaluation of the transition in Central Eastern Europe, and focuses on the socialist legacy, the...

This book covers a wide variety of aspects of transition in Central and Southeast Europe and the CIS, including the socialist legacy, privatization and growth, skills, and banking reforms. It also covers the evolution of the global economy beyond transition, looking at complexity, risk...

Moderne Gesellschaften müssen wissen, wo sie stehen und wohin sie gehen. Zentrale Schlüsselbegriffe dafür sind Sozialstruktur und sozialer Wandel, während sich Sozialberichterstattung und gesellschaftliche Dauerbeobachtung als unverzichtbare methodische Instrumente einer wirksamen...

On July 7, 2005, the Faculty of Economics of the University of Göttingen awarded Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen with an honorary doctorate in economics in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the fields of welfare and development economics. On the occasion of the award,...