Economic Reforms In Eastern Europe And The Soviet Union (westview Special Studies In International Economics)

This book contains country studies dealing with economic reform projects and with problems of transition from centrally planned to reformed systems – Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. It deals with two special areas of reform: foreign trade and banking system. The author discusses the traditional system of management of the economy as it existed in the early 1950s in the USSR and goes on to deal with the reforms of the 1960s and of the 1980s, country by country. He shows that the focus of the reforms is on finding a proper combination of planning and the market mechanism, and their success will be judged