Reform and Transformation in Eastern Europe : Soviet-type Economics on the Threshold of Change

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Reform and transformation in Eastern Europe Contents List of Contributors Prologue Crossing the threshold Part I Reform economics and economic theory and the west—missed opportunities Introduction to Part I 1 The ‘socialist calculation debate’ and reform discussions in socialist countries 2 The reform of Soviet socialism as a search for systemic rationality 3 An organizational theory of the socialist economy 4 Reform economics and western economic theory 5 Some institutional failures of socialist market economies—a dynamic market and institutional theory approach 6 On firms, hierarchies and economic reforms 7 Soviet reforms and western neo-classical economics Part II Reform economics and economic theory and the east— separation from Stalinism incomplete Introduction to Part II 8 Economic reform in a bargaining economy 9 From revisionism to pragmatism 10 Soviet economic reform in historical perspective 11 Reform economics and bureaucracy 12 Reformability of the ‘objective economic laws’ of socialism Part III Between reform and transformation—à la recherche Introduction to Part III 13 The theoretical and psychological obstacles to market-oriented reform in China 14 The scope of economic reforms in socialist countries 15 The political conditions of economic reform in socialism 16 Opposition against market-type reforms in centrally-planned economies* 17 Macroeconomic policy for the transitional reforms in the centrally-planned economies 18 The property rights in Hungary Epilogue Compassionate doubts about reform economics (economic science, ideology, politics)* A SCHOOL THAT LEARNS BY DOING Index Can the economics of Eastern Europe make the dramatic transition from centrally-planned to market-led economics? This book tries to understand the intellectual background behind this change and the problems of managing it.