A Fourth Way?: Privatization, Property, and the Emergence of New Market Economies

by Alexander,Gregory S.

• ISBN13: 9780415906982
• ISBN10: 0415906989
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1993-12-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The transition to market economies in Eastern Europe, considered in the light of Western experiences of seeking a middle way between classical liberalism and state socialism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Fourth Way?
The Challenge of Privatization in the Former East Germany: Reconciling the Conflict Between Individual Rights and Social Needs	p. 3
The Uneasy Breach with Socialized Ownership: Legal Aspects of Privatization of State-owned Enterprises in Poland	p. 19
Pensioners in America: The Economic Triumph and Political Limitations of Passive Ownership	p. 33
The Transition to a Market Economy in Russia: Property Rights, Mass Privatization and Stabilization	p. 57
Stabilization versus Privatization in Poland: A Sequencing Problem at Macro- and Microeconomic Levels	p. 79
The Private Provision of Public Goods: Principles and Implications	p. 95
Privatization in Poland: The Evolution of Opinions and Interests, 1988-1992	p. 119
Private Farm Ownership in a Changing Poland: Myth and Reality	p. 138
Social Consciousness in Transition: Toward a New Economic and Political System	p. 150
Beyond Constructionism and Rationality of Discovery: Economic Transformation and Institution-Budding Processes	p. 163
New Forms of State Ownership in Poland: The Case of Commercialization	p. 182
Has State Ownership Truly Abandoned Socialism? The Survival of Socialist Economy and Law in Postcommunist Hungary	p. 198
Privatization as a Gender Issue	p. 215
Neither the Market Nor the State: Housing Privatization Issues	p. 253
Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives as a Mode of Privatization	p. 267
Republicanism, Market Socialism, and the Third Way	p. 286
Legal Theory and Democratic Reconstruction: Reflections on 1989	p. 310
Contributors	p. 335
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