Economies in Transition: The Long-Run View

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Innovation and Dynamism: Interaction between Systems and Technical Progress....Pages 14-56
The Demographic Transformation of Post-Socialist Countries: Causes, Consequences, and Questions....Pages 57-83
Reform and Inequality during the Transition: An Analysis Using Panel Household Survey Data, 1990–2005....Pages 84-108
Twenty Years of Political Transition....Pages 109-133
Into the Void: Governing Finance in Central and Eastern Europe....Pages 134-152
The Long-Run Weight of Communism or the Weight of Long-Run History?....Pages 153-171
Misuse of Institutions: Lessons from Transition....Pages 172-193
Civil Society, Institutional Change, and the Politics of Reform: The Great Transition....Pages 194-221
Twenty Years Later and the Socialist Heritage is Still Kicking: The Case of Russia....Pages 222-253
European Transition at Twenty: Assessing Progress in Countries and Sectors....Pages 254-292
Transition, Structural Divergence, and Performance: Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union during 2000–7....Pages 293-316
The Long Road to Normality: Where Russia Now Stands....Pages 317-343
The Travails of Unification: East Germany’s Economic Transition since 1989....Pages 344-363
Transition in Southeast Europe: Understanding Economic Development and Institutional Change....Pages 364-399
Central Asia after Two Decades of Independence....Pages 400-429
Back Matter....Pages 430-446