1st Edition

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

Edited By János Mátyás Kovács, Marton Tardos Copyright 1992

    Can the economics of Eastern Europe make the dramatic transition from centrally-planned to market-led economics? This book tries to understand the intellectual background behind this change and the problems of managing it.

    Contributors:
    Leszek Balcerowicz, Central School of Planning and Statistics, Warsaw and former Deputy Prime Minister of Poland; Raimund Dietz, Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies; D. Duff Milenkovitch, Columbia University, New York; Irena Grosfeld, DELTA, Paris; Helmut Leipold, University of Marburg, Germany; J. Michael Montias, Yale University; Alec Nove, University of Glasgow; Petr O. Aven, Advisor to Stanislav Shatalin, Chief Economic Advisor to Gorbachev, Institute of System Research, Moscow and IIASA, Austria; Wodzimierz Brus, St Antony's College, Oxford; Robert W. Davies, University of Birmingham; Tadeusz Kowalik, Institute of the History of Science, Warsaw; Pekka Sutela, University of Helsinki; Xiaochuan Zhou, formerly Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, People's Republic of China; Alexander Bajt, University of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia and advisor to Markovich, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia; Ellen Comisso, University of California, San Diego; Jerzy Osiatynski, Minister of Planning, Poland and Institute of the History of Science, Warsaw; Leon Podkaminer, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw; Márton Tardos, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Chief Economic Advisor to the party of the Free Democrats in Hungary

    Biography

    János Mátyás Kovács, Marton Tardos