Going global : transition from plan to market in the world economy / edited by Padma Desai.
The transition of the former socialist and otherwise centrally planned economies into the world trading and financial system has become a major concern to both policymakers and social scientists. In this book, experts from diverse economies address the principal issues raised by this transition. The...
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| Summary: | The transition of the former socialist and otherwise centrally planned economies into the world trading and financial system has become a major concern to both policymakers and social scientists. In this book, experts from diverse economies address the principal issues raised by this transition. The chapters, which cover fourteen countries of East and Central Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Asia, are the result of a three-year research project. Although the contributors share a unity of design and analysis, each author focuses on the issues most relevant to the country or countries under discussion. In her introductory essay, project leader Padma Desai synthesizes the findings and cuts through recent analytical confusion over such issues as "shock therapy" versus gradualism. Rather than advocate "the faster the better," she discusses the possible difficulty of sustaining rapid transition reforms and globalization in the face of rising unemployment. |
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| Item Description: | "Papers were discussed at a conference in Helsinki in the early summer of 1995"--Preface. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 507 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585133484 9780585133485 0262271583 9780262271585 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |