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The Political Economy of Transition: Opportunities and Limits of Transformation: 7
Author(s): Jozef M. van Brabant (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 26 Mar. 1998
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 576 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415169461
- ISBN-13: 9780415169462
Book Description
This book addresses the policy questions surrounding the challenge of transforming eastern European economies from their planned, administrative past to vibrant market-based entities. Jozef van Brabant considers in turn, the wider set of challenges facing these economies – stabilization, privatization, liberalization, institution building, and developing and maintaining the sociopolitical consensus – before examining the evolving role of the state. Using concrete examples from the eastern European countries throughout, including the Czech Republic and Bulgaria, this work systematically examines, in a society-wide context, the initial conditions of transformation, the policy tasks ahead and the manner in which policies have been pursued.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This valuable, volumnious treatise, presented by an acknowledged expert and prolific author on Eastern and Central Europe, provides the historical background of the economies in transition, the agenda for transformation, and a discussion of integration into the global political economy in general and the European Union in particular.”
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About the Author
Jozef M.van Brabant is currently Principal Economic Affairs Officer at the Secretariat of the United Nations in New York. His major academic interest is in the economics of the planned and now the transition economies and, recently, in the economic aspects of remaking Europe.
