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Title

Going global : transition from plan to market in the world economy / edited by Padma Desai.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

Desai, Padma.

Description

xii, 507 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• The transition of the former socialist and otherwise centrally planned economies into the world trading and financial system has become a major concern to both policymakers and social scientists. In this book, experts from diverse economies address the principal issues raised by this transition. The chapters, which cover fourteen countries of East and Central Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Asia, are the result of a three-year research project.
• Although the contributors share a unity of design and analysis, each author focuses on the issues most relevant to the country or countries under discussion.
• In her introductory essay, project leader Padma Desai synthesizes the findings and cuts through recent analytical confusion over such issues as "shock therapy" versus gradualism. Rather than advocate "the faster the better," she discusses the possible difficulty of sustaining rapid transition reforms and globalization in the face of rising unemployment.

Subjects

• Privatization
• International economic integration
• Investments, Foreign
• Commercial policy
• Central planning

Note

• "Papers were discussed at a conference in Helsinki in the early summer of 1995"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Padma Desai -- I. Central and East Europe. 1. The Czech Republic / Josef C. Brada and Ali M. Kutan. 2. Hungary / Andras Blaho and Peter Gal. 3. East Germany / Jurgen von Hagen. 4. Poland / Stanislaw Wellisz -- II. The North European Economies. 5. The Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania / Kalev Kukk. 6. Finland / Urpo Kivikari -- III. The Post-Soviet States. 7. Russia / Padma Desai. 8. Kazakhstan / Heiner Flassbeck, Lutz Hoffmann and Ludger Lindlar. 9. Uzbekistan / Michael Connolly -- IV. East, Southeast, and South Asia. 10. China / Richard S. Eckaus. 11. Vietnam / David Dollar and Borje Ljunggren. 12. India / Manmohan Agarwal.

ISBN

0262041618 (alk. paper)

LCCN

97014607

OCLC

• 36806569
• ocm36806569

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries