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The Transformation Of Communist Systems

Economic Reform Since The 1950s

By: Bernard Chavance,Charles Hauss,Mark Selden

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The Transformation Of Communist Systems

Economic Reform Since The 1950s

By: Bernard Chavance,Charles Hauss,Mark Selden

In the confrontation between the two main economic systems that has marked the twentieth century, capitalism has been declared the winner–by default– over its adversary, socialism. Today, establishing a market economy has become the primary goal of the formerly socialist countries. The history of economic reform helps explain this remarkable turning point. Attempts to improve the old centralized system by expanding enterprise autonomy (in Poland, the Soviet Union, and East Germany) and more radical reforms that limited the role of central planning (in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and China) encountered social and political obstacles or had unexpected and undesired effects. During the 1980s, the idea of a socialist market economy, which had been seen as a "third way" between capitalism and centralized socialism, was abandoned as economists gradually came to support a free market rather than the dogma of planning. Through a comparative and historical analysis of change in socialist and post-socialist systems, this timely and original book clarifies the policies and pitfalls in this extraordinary transition. Bernard Chavance provides a succinct introduction and analysis of the politics and economics of Eastern Europe from the creation of the Stalinist system in the Soviet Union through what he argues have been three major waves of reform since the 1950s to the dismantling of most socialist governments in the 1990s. Exploring the link between the one-party regime and the growing rigidity of socialist economic systems, the author analyzes the failure of both incremental and radical reforms to adapt to new economic challenges, thus leading to the ultimate collapse of communist regimes in Europe.

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1000306429

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Institutional Economics

By: Bernard Chavance

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Institutional Economics

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This introduction to institutional economics, follows the history of the field since the early 20th century until the present day. It concentrates on influential authors in the main schools of institutional economics. Institutional economics is defined as economic thought that considers institutions to be relevant for economic theory, and consequently criticizes the neoclassical mainstream for having pushed them out of the discipline; it deals specially with the nature, the origin, the change of institutions, and their effects on economic performance. It is a family of different theories that were initially influential in economics, then lost much of their weight in the middle half of the 20th century, and eventually recovered significant creative vitality and impact in the last twenty years. The book puts the recent developments in historical perspective by showing how important themes like the importance of habits, the role of formal and informal rules, the relation of organizations and institutions, the hierarchy and complementarity of institutions, the evolutionary character of institutional change, have been explored by various authors or schools.

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1134059884

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9781134059881

Institutional Economics

By: Bernard Chavance

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Institutional Economics

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The economy is an instituted process - such is the emerging consensus in economics in the last twenty years. This book is an introduction to institutional economics, following the history of different trends in this field since the early 20th century until the present day. It relates the history of economic theories that make up the enlarged family of institutional economics. Institutional economics is defined as economic thought that considers institutions to be relevant for economic theory, and consequently criticises the neoclassical mainstream for having pushed them out of the discipline of economics; it deals specially with the nature, the origin, the change of institutions, and their effects on economic performance. Based on different doctrinal and methodological positions, the theories surrounding this subject have all made a major contribution to contemporary thought. Chavance's book puts the recent developments into historical perspective by showing how key themes like the importance of habits, the role of formal and informal rules, the relation of organizations and institutions, the hierarchy of institutions, the evolutionary character of institutional change, have been explored by various authors or schools; it introduces novel concepts of contemporary research.

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Routledge Frontiers of Politic

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0415449111

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The Transformation Of Communist Systems

Economic Reform Since The 1950s

By: Bernard Chavance,Charles Hauss,Mark Selden

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Economic Reform Since The 1950s

By: Bernard Chavance,Charles Hauss,Mark Selden

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The Transformation Of Communist Systems

The Transformation Of Communist Systems

Institutional Economics

Institutional Economics

Institutional Economics

Institutional Economics

The Transformation Of Communist Systems

The Transformation Of Communist Systems

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