Economic Integration and Economic Strategy

Front Matter....Pages 1-6
Introduction....Pages 7-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
The new stage of the crisis of the capitalist world economy and the socialist alternative....Pages 13-26
Realistic perspectives of East-West economic cooperation....Pages 27-35
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Internationalization of economic processes....Pages 39-45
Limitations to the measurement of intertwining....Pages 46-54
Advantages deriving from the division of labour....Pages 55-70
Character of the national economies and the field of gravitation....Pages 71-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Eastern Europe before the socialist revolutions—the peripheral belt of the advanced West....Pages 79-89
Prehistory of the West-European economic region....Pages 90-93
The determining role of the economic policy of socialist industrialization in developing the present integrational requirements of Eastern Europe....Pages 94-104
The deviating character of the “Western” and the “Eastern” types of economic integration (the EEC and the CMEA)....Pages 105-126
The requirement of equalizing the development levels....Pages 127-149
Rearrangement of the advantages derived from the division of labour in the course of industrialization....Pages 150-163
Basic features of the operation of the socialist integration....Pages 164-170
The building stones of the socialist integration: the national economic strategies....Pages 171-180
Harmonization of national economic policies: the basic mechanism of socialist integration....Pages 181-187
Market systems at the service of economic policy coordination....Pages 188-192
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
The basic conditions of the Hungarian foreign-trade strategy....Pages 195-212
Possible innovative cores of the Hungarian economy....Pages 213-235
Some conclusions....Pages 236-240