Systemic Change in Post-Communist Economies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Overview

   1. Overview

      • Paul G. Hare

      Pages 1-21

3. Systemic Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Gradualism versus Shock Therapy

      • Paweł Bożyk

      Pages 25-38

   3. Shock versus Gradualism

      • Herman W. Hoen

      Pages 39-61

   4. The Visible versus the Invisible Hand

      • J. L. Porket

      Pages 62-79

   5. Road Maps to Markets

      • Valdas Samonis

      Pages 80-100

   6. Russian Output Drop in Early Transition and its Macro- and Micro-economic Implications

      • Masaaki Kuboniwa

      Pages 101-131

4. Country Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133

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   2. Polish Economic Reforms in Japanese Historical Perspective

      • Ken Morita

      Pages 135-146

   3. Theories of Disintegration of the USSR

      • Hillel H. Ticktin

      Pages 147-163

   4. Political Problems of Economic Transformation in Post-Communist Russia

      • Vladimir Mau

      Pages 164-210

   5. Western Economists and the Transition Process in Russia

      • Bob Arnot

      Pages 211-241

   6. Russia’s Economic Recovery Potential to the Year 2000

      • Steven Rosefielde

      Pages 242-265

   7. Georgian Economy: Main Directions and Initial Results of Reforms

      • Vladimer Papava

      Pages 266-292

5. Back Matter

   Pages 293-304

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Early transition was characterized by debate over shock therapy and gradualism as alternative reform strategies. Other important debates concerned the nature of the former USSR. Was it ever Socialist and what were its laws of motion? What implications does the old system have for the course of post-communist reforms? These are among the key issues analysed in this book, through a mix of conceptual analysis and an interesting selection of country studies.

• communism
• desegregation
• economy
• Polis
• reforms
• transformation
• transition

• School of Management, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

  Paul G. Hare

BOB ARNOT Department of Economics, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland PAWEL BOZYK Warsaw, Poland; Former Finance Minister of the Polish People's Republic HARMAN W. HOEN Faculty of Economics, University of Groningen, The Netherlands MASAAKI KUBONIWA Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Japan VLADIMER PAPAVA P.Gugushivili Institute of Economics, The Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia JOSEPH L.POKET Ruislip, Middlesex, England STEVEN ROSEFIELDE Professor, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA VAL SAMONIS Professor, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto, Canada HILLEL H. TICKTIN Institute of Russian and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, Scotland.

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