Privatizing Eastern Europe : the role of markets and ownership in the transition / by Jozef M. van Brabant.

With the revolutions in eastern Europe since mid-1989, two main transformations are envisaged: pluralistic political democracy and a market economy based largely on private property and self-interest. One element that straddles those two objectives is what to do with state-owned property during the...

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Main Author: Brabant, Jozef M. van
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Science, 1992.
Series:International studies in economics and econometrics ; v. 24.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. On the transformations of the East
  • 2. Coordination through planning and the market
  • 3. On the role of the state
  • 4. On property rights
  • 5. Capital assets and their allocation
  • 6. On the motives for and goals of privatization
  • 7. Obstacles to privatization
  • 8. On the techniques of privatization
  • 9. The experience with privatization
  • Conclusions.