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9780817993320

Economic Transition in Eastern Europe and Russia Realities of Reform

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    9780817993320

  • ISBN10:

    0817993320

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1995-03-01
  • Publisher: Hoover Institution Press

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Summary

Thirteen essays by acknowledged economic experts explore the rapid changes in the transition economies of Eastern Europe, with discussions on political and economic freedom, monetary control and privatization, labor markets and social safety nets, and taxation and crime.

Author Biography

Edward P. Lazear, Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, was named to President Bush's new advisory Tax Reform Panel. Lazear will work with nine other panel members to look into revenue-neutral policy options for reforming the Federal Internal Revenue Code. Lazear is also the Jack Steele Parker Professor of Human Resources, Management and Economics (1995) at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, where he has taught since 1992. He taught previously at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business, where he was the Brown Professor of Urban and Labor Economics.

Table of Contents

Economic Reform: Appropriate Steps and Actual Policiesp. 3
Macroeconomics in Russiap. 65
Democracy and Economic Reform: Tensions, Compatibilities, and Strategies for Reconciliationp. 107
Privatization in the Former Soviet Empirep. 159
Revenue Assignment and Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Russiap. 199
Credibility, Commitment, and Soviet Economic Reformp. 247
Gradual versus Rapid Liberalization in Socialist Foreign Tradep. 276
Contract Enforcement Institutions: Historical Perspective and Current Status in Russiap. 291
Publicly Provided Private Goods and Services in a Transition Economyp. 322
The Red Mafia: A Legacy of Communismp. 340
Defense Conversion and Economic Reform in Russiap. 367
Employment and Unemployment after Communismp. 391
China's Nonconformist Reformsp. 419
List of Contributorsp. 435
Indexp. 439
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