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

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
1 The ‘socialist calculation debate’ and reform discussions in socialist countries......Page 24
2 The reform of Soviet socialism as a search for systemic rationality......Page 37
3 An organizational theory of the socialist economy......Page 55
4 Reform economics and western economic theory......Page 75
5 Some institutional failures of socialist market economie......Page 92
6 On firms, hierarchies and economic reforms......Page 102
7 Soviet reforms and western neo-classical economics......Page 113
8 Economic reform in a bargaining economy......Page 133
9 From revisionism to pragmatism......Page 143
10 Soviet economic reform in historical perspective......Page 149
11 Reform economics and bureaucracy......Page 167
12 Reformability of the ‘objective economic laws’ of socialism......Page 179
13 The theoretical and psychological obstacles to market-oriented reform in China......Page 197
14 The scope of economic reforms in socialist countries......Page 210
15 The political conditions of economic reform in socialism......Page 222
16 Opposition against market-type reforms in centrally-planned economies......Page 241
17 Macroeconomic policy for the transitional reforms in the centrally-planned economies......Page 256
18 The property rights in Hungary......Page 274
Index......Page 323