1st Edition
Aspects of Independent Romania's Economic History with Particular Reference to Transition for EU Accession
By David Turnock
Copyright 2007
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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After fifteen years of transition in the former communist states of Central and Eastern Europe it has become clear that for a substantial number the objective of reform and restructuring process is a market system in line with membership of the EU. In this study the long term economic transformation of Romania is studied, offering a detailed narrative and thematic account of events from the... Read more
Contents: Series editor's preface; Foreword; The Romanian state and its economic development to 1918; Modernisation in Greater Romania 1918-1945: increasing the role of the state; The Communist era of state monopoly: central planning with a descent to sultanism; The political context of post-Communist economic restructuring: the EU and NATO; Post-Communist economic reform: a chronological approach; Problems of industrial restructuring and environment with reference to the chemical industry; Building materials and textiles, clothing and leather: contrasts in the nature of foreign penetration; Agriculture: overcoming the subsistence rationale; Transport: seeking capital to reconnect with the West; Settlement patterns: urban planning and development; Postscript; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
David Turnock is Emeritus Professor of Human Geography at the University of Leicester, UK.
’This book traces Romania's economic and social transformation over almost three centuries and ,given its ambitious scope, could have been undertaken only by someone with extensive scholarship in Eastern European economic history and regional development. For David Turnock, Emeritus Professor of Human Geography at the University of Leicester, UK, this study is a crowning achievement of over twenty years of research and analysis focused primarily upon Romania's modernization efforts.’ EH.NET ’Romania’s accession to EU membership in January 2007 flags our interest in this volume. Not only timely, it also works in the regretfully neglected discipline of economic geography to combine a century-long perspective on Romanian economic history with a detailed survey of the halting but eventually successful path to EU accession over the past decade.’ Economic History Review
