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Transforming post-Communist political economies /

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Corporate Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Task Force on Economies in Transition.
Other Authors: Nelson, Joan M., Tilly, Charles., Walker, Lee.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c1997.
Subjects:
Post-communism > Former Soviet republics.
Social change > Former Soviet republics.
Former Soviet republics > Economic conditions.
Former Soviet republics > Economic policy.
Former Soviet republics > Social conditions.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Overview
  • Understanding Economic Change / Douglass C. North
  • II. Institutional Change, Property Rights, and Corruption
  • Underground Activity and Institutional Change: Productive, Protective, and Predatory Behavior in Transition Economies / Edgar L. Feige
  • 1. Property Rights in Transition Economies: A Commentary on What Economists Know / Alexandra Benham and Lee Benham
  • 2. Rethinking the Theory of Economic Policy: Some Implications of the New Institutionalism / Thrainn Eggertsson
  • 3. Missed Markets: Implications for Economic Behavior and Institutional Change / Leonid Polishchuk
  • 4. Fuzzy Property: Rights, Power, and Identity in Transylvania's Decollectivization / Katherine Verdery
  • 5. Rule Evasion in Transitional Russia / James Leitzel
  • III. Transforming Management, Labor, and Production
  • Restructuring Production Without Market Infrastructure / Judith Thornton
  • 6. Learning in Networks: Enterprise Behavior in the Former Soviet Union and Contemporary Russia / Yevgeny Kuznetsov
  • 7. Formal Employment and Survival Strategies After Communism / Simon Johnson, Daniel Kaufman and Oleg Ustenko
  • 8. Observations on the Speed of Transition in Russia: Prices and Entry / Daniel Berkowitz and David N. DeJong
  • 9. Social Policy and the Labor Market in Russia During Transition / Alastair McAuley
  • IV. Social Trends, Household Behavior, and Social-Sector Policies
  • Social Costs, Social-Sector Reforms, and Politics in Post-Communist Transformations / Joan M. Nelson
  • 10. Reform of the Welfare Sector in the Post-Communist Countries: A Normative Approach / Janos Kornai
  • 11. Social Policy Challenges and Dilemmas in Ex-Socialist Systems / Zsuzsa Ferge
  • 12. Health Reform in Russia and Central Asia / Jeni Klugman, George Schieber and Timothy Heleniak
  • 13. Vulnerable Populations in Central Europe / Barbara Boyle Torrey, Timothy M. Smeeding and Debra Bailey
  • 14. Pension Reform in the Post-Communist Transition Economies / Louise Fox
  • 15. From Safety Nets to Social Policy: Lessons for the Transition Economies from the Developing Countries / Carol Graham
  • V. Transforming the Role of the State
  • Democracy, Social Change, and Economies in Transition / Charles Tilly
  • 16. The State in a Market Economy / Adam Przeworski
  • 17. The State as an Ensemble of Economic Actors: Some Inferences from China's Trajectory of Change / Andrew G. Walder
  • 18. Possible Future Directions for Economies in Transition / Anders Aslund
  • VI. Research Priorities for Post-Communist Economies
  • Research Priorities for Post-Communist Economies : Task Force on Economies in Transition.

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