Analyzing Post-Communist Economic Change: A Review Essay
Analyzing Post-Communist Economic Change: A Review Essay
Author(s): Stephen E. HansonSubject(s): Political history, Economic policy, Government/Political systems, Political economy, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation, Book-Review
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Collapse of Leninism; postcommunist transformation; economic reforms; Russia; market economy; transition to democracy; capitalism; book review;
Summary/Abstract: The review of: 1) Anders Aslund, How Russia Became a Market Economy (Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1995). 2) Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira, Jose Maria Maravall, and Adam Przeworski, Economic Reforms in New Democracies: A Social-Democratic Approach (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). 3) Marshall I. Goldman, Lost Opportunity: What Has Made Economic Reform in Russia So Difficult, 2d ed. (New York: Norton, 1996). 4) J. L. Porker, Unemployment in Capitalist, Communist, and Post-Communist Economies (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995). 5) Jeffrey Sachs, Poland's Jump to the Market Economy (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994).
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 12/1998
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 145-170
- Page Count: 26
- Language: English
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