Author: Jan Winiecki
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136668217
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe provide unique examples of large-scale relatively highly developed centrally planned economies. In the 1980s economists in both the East and West began to focus with increasingly critical attention on the economies of the Soviet Bloc, in an attempt to explain why they were performing so poorly in comparison with the economies of the Western powers and the capitalist countries of South-East Asia. First published in 1988 this substantial and innovative contribution to the critical literature on the economies of the former Soviet bloc is unusual in that its author is equally familiar with both Western and Eastern sources. It highlights, in particular, a discrepancy between the behaviour of individuals in Soviet-style economies and that expected of agents in a market system. It proceeds to outline how the consequent discordance between microeconomic practice and macroeconomic planning generates fundamental economic distortions.
The Distorted World of Soviet-Type Economies (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Jan Winiecki
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136668217
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe provide unique examples of large-scale relatively highly developed centrally planned economies. In the 1980s economists in both the East and West began to focus with increasingly critical attention on the economies of the Soviet Bloc, in an attempt to explain why they were performing so poorly in comparison with the economies of the Western powers and the capitalist countries of South-East Asia. First published in 1988 this substantial and innovative contribution to the critical literature on the economies of the former Soviet bloc is unusual in that its author is equally familiar with both Western and Eastern sources. It highlights, in particular, a discrepancy between the behaviour of individuals in Soviet-style economies and that expected of agents in a market system. It proceeds to outline how the consequent discordance between microeconomic practice and macroeconomic planning generates fundamental economic distortions.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136668217
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe provide unique examples of large-scale relatively highly developed centrally planned economies. In the 1980s economists in both the East and West began to focus with increasingly critical attention on the economies of the Soviet Bloc, in an attempt to explain why they were performing so poorly in comparison with the economies of the Western powers and the capitalist countries of South-East Asia. First published in 1988 this substantial and innovative contribution to the critical literature on the economies of the former Soviet bloc is unusual in that its author is equally familiar with both Western and Eastern sources. It highlights, in particular, a discrepancy between the behaviour of individuals in Soviet-style economies and that expected of agents in a market system. It proceeds to outline how the consequent discordance between microeconomic practice and macroeconomic planning generates fundamental economic distortions.
Political Economy of Reform and Change (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Jan Winiecki
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136462430
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
First published in 1997, this collection of articles and essays analyses the political economy of reform and change in Eastern Europe during the years of Gorbachev’s perestroika and the years immediately following the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Written by Polish economist Jan Winiecki, between 1984 and 1996, this work explores the issue of the feasibility of reform and change during the period of decline and collapse of communist economic order and, later, the emergence of the capitalist economic order in the post-communist Eastern Europe. Split into three parts, the work considers firstly the failures of Gorbachev’s political economy of reform, secondly the determining factors in the collapse of the Soviet system, and finally the feasibility of the systematic change which began in the wake of its collapse.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136462430
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
First published in 1997, this collection of articles and essays analyses the political economy of reform and change in Eastern Europe during the years of Gorbachev’s perestroika and the years immediately following the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Written by Polish economist Jan Winiecki, between 1984 and 1996, this work explores the issue of the feasibility of reform and change during the period of decline and collapse of communist economic order and, later, the emergence of the capitalist economic order in the post-communist Eastern Europe. Split into three parts, the work considers firstly the failures of Gorbachev’s political economy of reform, secondly the determining factors in the collapse of the Soviet system, and finally the feasibility of the systematic change which began in the wake of its collapse.
Resistance to Change in the Soviet Economic System (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Jan Winiecki
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317831527
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
First published in 1991, this book uses a property rights perspective to analyse why there is such widespread resistance to change in the Soviet Economic System. Many within the ruling stratum benefit considerably from their positions, particularly in terms of access to goods and services. In an original conclusion Jan Winiecki argues that a cost-effective way of removing the resistance of the parasitic ruling stratum would be a system of compensatory payments.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317831527
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
First published in 1991, this book uses a property rights perspective to analyse why there is such widespread resistance to change in the Soviet Economic System. Many within the ruling stratum benefit considerably from their positions, particularly in terms of access to goods and services. In an original conclusion Jan Winiecki argues that a cost-effective way of removing the resistance of the parasitic ruling stratum would be a system of compensatory payments.
The Distorted World of Soviet-Type Economies (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Jan Winiecki
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780415676052
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe provide unique examples of large-scale relatively highly developed centrally planned economies. In the 1980s economists in both the East and West began to focus with increasingly critical attention on the economies of the Soviet Bloc, in an attempt to explain why they were performing so poorly in comparison with the economies of the Western powers and the capitalist countries of South-East Asia. First published in 1988 this substantial and innovative contribution to the critical literature on the economies of the former Soviet bloc is unusual in that its author is equally familiar with both Western and Eastern sources. It highlights, in particular, a discrepancy between the behaviour of individuals in Soviet-style economies and that expected of agents in a market system. It proceeds to outline how the consequent discordance between microeconomic practice and macroeconomic planning generates fundamental economic distortions.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780415676052
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe provide unique examples of large-scale relatively highly developed centrally planned economies. In the 1980s economists in both the East and West began to focus with increasingly critical attention on the economies of the Soviet Bloc, in an attempt to explain why they were performing so poorly in comparison with the economies of the Western powers and the capitalist countries of South-East Asia. First published in 1988 this substantial and innovative contribution to the critical literature on the economies of the former Soviet bloc is unusual in that its author is equally familiar with both Western and Eastern sources. It highlights, in particular, a discrepancy between the behaviour of individuals in Soviet-style economies and that expected of agents in a market system. It proceeds to outline how the consequent discordance between microeconomic practice and macroeconomic planning generates fundamental economic distortions.
Shortcut or Piecemeal
Author: Jan Winiecki
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9633861446
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Alternative strategies of economic development have received little attention in the literature. Academics rarely compare certain strategic features or assess the performance of different strategies in terms of outcomes. This book seeks to address that gap and to provide a theoretical background to the shift from industry to human capital-intensive services as the engine of economic growth. Pioneering studies reveal interesting trends and patterns that point to the growing importance of intangible capital for the level of GDP. They also indicate a much greater role of economic freedom in bringing about this second great structural change than was the case with industrialization. With this perspective on structural change and the role of freedom, Shortcut or Piecemeal also provides an extensive assessment of four key developing countries: Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Subjects: 1. Central planning—History. 2. Economic development—History
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9633861446
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Alternative strategies of economic development have received little attention in the literature. Academics rarely compare certain strategic features or assess the performance of different strategies in terms of outcomes. This book seeks to address that gap and to provide a theoretical background to the shift from industry to human capital-intensive services as the engine of economic growth. Pioneering studies reveal interesting trends and patterns that point to the growing importance of intangible capital for the level of GDP. They also indicate a much greater role of economic freedom in bringing about this second great structural change than was the case with industrialization. With this perspective on structural change and the role of freedom, Shortcut or Piecemeal also provides an extensive assessment of four key developing countries: Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Subjects: 1. Central planning—History. 2. Economic development—History
The European Economy Since 1914
Author: Derek Howard Aldcroft
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415438896
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The European Economy Since 1914 provides an invaluable guide to the major economic changes in both Western and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415438896
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The European Economy Since 1914 provides an invaluable guide to the major economic changes in both Western and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century.
The Government of Space (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Alison Ravetz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134465246
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Britain’s planning system began as ‘town and country planning’ to repair the ravages of unplanned industrialism and promote ideal environments for the future. Steering a course between left and right, public control and for-profit development, it survived successive booms and busts, broadening to include new concerns like ecology, conservation and community participation. By the 1986, when this book was first published, the system’s survival beyond the year 2000 was in doubt. It did endure, but it is now under serious threat from the right, which sees it as obstructing enterprise and the restoration of ‘growth’. It has been stripped of some of its core aims and mechanisms, while as yet there is no agenda distinguishing growth that will be sustainable from growth which self-evidently is not. The Government of Space was written as a concise guide for the non-specialist to the origins and evolution of British planning, its intellectual pedigree, achievements and cruxes. It is an invaluable background to the state of planning and the cases for and against it today.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134465246
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Britain’s planning system began as ‘town and country planning’ to repair the ravages of unplanned industrialism and promote ideal environments for the future. Steering a course between left and right, public control and for-profit development, it survived successive booms and busts, broadening to include new concerns like ecology, conservation and community participation. By the 1986, when this book was first published, the system’s survival beyond the year 2000 was in doubt. It did endure, but it is now under serious threat from the right, which sees it as obstructing enterprise and the restoration of ‘growth’. It has been stripped of some of its core aims and mechanisms, while as yet there is no agenda distinguishing growth that will be sustainable from growth which self-evidently is not. The Government of Space was written as a concise guide for the non-specialist to the origins and evolution of British planning, its intellectual pedigree, achievements and cruxes. It is an invaluable background to the state of planning and the cases for and against it today.
Transition Report 1997
Author: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9781898802075
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Transition Report is a unique source of information on economic development in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Drawing on the EBRD's experience as an investor in twenty-six countries in the region, it offers a comprehensive analysis of each nation's progress in the move towards establishing a market economy. Country-by-country tables and summaries offer much data on all advances made in the key areas of market liberalism and competition, enterprise restructuring and privatization, and financial sector reform (as well as legal reform). Providing extensive coverage of macroeconomic developments and structural reform, the annual Report will be essential reading for investors, policy-makers, and researchers. The special theme of the 1997 edition is "enterprise performance and growth"--focusing on the foundations for a recovery in output and long-term growth in the region.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9781898802075
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Transition Report is a unique source of information on economic development in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Drawing on the EBRD's experience as an investor in twenty-six countries in the region, it offers a comprehensive analysis of each nation's progress in the move towards establishing a market economy. Country-by-country tables and summaries offer much data on all advances made in the key areas of market liberalism and competition, enterprise restructuring and privatization, and financial sector reform (as well as legal reform). Providing extensive coverage of macroeconomic developments and structural reform, the annual Report will be essential reading for investors, policy-makers, and researchers. The special theme of the 1997 edition is "enterprise performance and growth"--focusing on the foundations for a recovery in output and long-term growth in the region.
Moscow Monumental
Author: Katherine Zubovich
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691202729
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper"--
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691202729
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper"--
Why Perestroika Failed
Author: Peter J Boettke
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134886306
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Perestroika was acclaimed in the west but brought empty shelves in the east. Why Perestroika Failed argues that this was inevitable because it was not based on a sound understanding of market and political processes. Even if the perestroika programme had been carried out to the full it would have failed to bring about the structural changes necessa
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134886306
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Perestroika was acclaimed in the west but brought empty shelves in the east. Why Perestroika Failed argues that this was inevitable because it was not based on a sound understanding of market and political processes. Even if the perestroika programme had been carried out to the full it would have failed to bring about the structural changes necessa