Economic Reform and Political Change in Eastern Europe: A Comparison of the Czechoslovak and Hungarian ExperiencesEconomic reform - the introduction of elements of the market into a planned economy - has been the central political problem for socialist states for at least three decades. This book seeks to elucidate the nature of the problem through a reconsideration of the general theoretical issues, and through a comparative analysis of the practice of economic reform in two countries - Czechoslovakia and Hungary. |
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Economics | 7 |
Politics | 26 |
The Regulated Market Consensus and Democracy | 36 |
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