Economic Transformations in East and Central Europe: Legacies from the Past and Policies for the Future

TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
List of figures......Page 9
List of tables......Page 11
List of contributors......Page 13
Preface......Page 15
THE ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Main themes and issues......Page 19
EXTERNAL SHOCKS AND LONG-TERM PATTERNS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE......Page 43
INSTITUTIONS AND MARKETS IN HISTORY Lessons for Central and Eastern Europe......Page 59
CONTINUITY AND DISCONTINUITY Banking and industry in twentieth-century Central Europe......Page 79
THE COLLAPSE OF STATE SOCIALISM Causes and consequences......Page 91
THE RISE AND FALL OF YUGOSLAV SOCIALISM A case study of the Yugo Automobile Enterprise 1954  92......Page 109
THE TRANSITION TO MARKET ECONOMIES Lessons from Hungary and the case for pessimism......Page 126
THE AUSTRIAN SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP A model for Central and Eastern Europe?......Page 147
THE YUGOSLAV ECONOMY FROM AMALGAMATION TO DISINTEGRATION Failed efforts at molding a new economic space 1919  91......Page 163
STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN POLISH AGRICULTURE 1918  89......Page 179
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AGRICULTURE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1899  1992......Page 193
GERMAN BANKS AND FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE BEFORE 1939......Page 217
AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN TRADE AND THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE BEFORE WORLD WAR I......Page 247
BETWEEN POLITICAL DISINTEGRATION AND ECONOMIC REINTEGRATION Austrian trade relations with the successor states after World War I......Page 277
FOREIGN TRADE IN AUSTRIA AND EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE Retrospective and perspective......Page 293
Index......Page 311