1st Edition

Economic Thought in Communist and Post-Communist Europe

Edited By Hans-Jurgen Wagener Copyright 1998
400 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge

It is now almost a decade since central and east Europe saw the demise of the Soviet-style economic planning which accompanied more ot less authoritarian political rule by communist parties. The economic thought, based on Marxist philosophy, which formed theoretical underpinning of centrally planned socialist economies, was peculiar to the region, and was radically different from mainstream... Read more
1: Between Conformity and Reform; 2: Economics Under Socialism; 3: Looking Back at Economic Science in Poland, 1945–96; Economics and Systemic Changes in Hungary, 1945–96; 5: Economics and System Change in Czechoslovakia, 1945–92; Economics in Eastern Germany, 1945–90; 7: Yugoslav Economics Facing Reform and Dissolution

Biography

Hans-Jurgen Wagener

This is a well thought out and disarming book. - Paul Auerbach, Economics of Planning 34: 249-249, 2001