Economic Thought in Communist and Post-Communist Europe

by Hans-Jurgen Wagener (Editor)

Overview

It is now almost a decade since central and east Europe saw the demise of the Soviet-style economic planning which accompanied more ot less authoritarian political rule by communist parties. The economic thought, based on Marxist philosophy, which formed theoretical underpinning of centrally planned socialist economies, was peculiar to the region,

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134681839
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/12/1998
Series:	Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	741 KB

About the Author

Hans-Jurgen Wagener

Table of Contents

1: Between Conformity and Reform; 2: Economics Under Socialism; 3: Looking Back at Economic Science in Poland, 1945–96; Economics and Systemic Changes in Hungary, 1945–96; 5: Economics and System Change in Czechoslovakia, 1945–92; Economics in Eastern Germany, 1945–90; 7: Yugoslav Economics Facing Reform and Dissolution

Editorial Reviews

This is a well thought out and disarming book. - Paul Auerbach, Economics of Planning 34: 249-249, 2001

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