1st Edition

Centrally Planned Economies Theory and Practice in Socialist Czechoslovakia

By Libor Žídek Copyright 2019
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Offering a retrospective view of how the system operated in Communist Czechoslovakia, this book is an important voice in the discussion about the systems of central planning. The unique features of the book include in-depth research comprising both archival records and analyses of around 75 interviews conducted with period managers across a wide range of management levels. They provided... Read more

Introduction Chapter 1. Formal and informal institutions of the socialist era Chapter 2. Marxist-Leninist economic theory Chapter 3. Formal settings of central planning in Czechoslovakia Chapter 4. Practices of central planning in Czechoslovakia Chapter 5. Macroeconomic Results Chapter 6. Results and Conclusions

Biography

Libor Žídek, Associate Professor, has lectured at the Faculty of Economics and Administration at Masaryk University, Czech Republic, since 1997. He specializes in economic transformation with a particular focus on the Czech economy. He also has a keen interest in planned economy, particularly in Czechoslovakia and generally in economic history. His doctoral thesis focused on the impact of globalization on economic policy and his habilitation thesis on the transformation process in the Czech Republic. He teaches courses on World Economic History, Economic Transformation and Macroeconomics. He has lectured on the topics of central planning and transformation in a number of countries, including the USA, Canada, Japan, Germany, the UK, Poland, Finland, Ukraine, and Jamaica. He has presented at conferences and published several books and a number of chapters and journal papers.