Download or read book The Macroeconomics of Price Reform in Socialist Countries written by Simon Commander and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The macroeconomic consequences of adopting different price rules for adjusting controlled prices in systems where controlled and market prices coexist and the implications of varying the proportions of controlled and market prices.
Download or read book Industrial Reform in Socialist Countries written by Ian Jeffries and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an assessment and evaluation of industrial reform in 14 countries. Topics covered in detail include the changing role of the industrial enterprise, the state and private sectors, privatization, pricing, foreign trade and direct foreign investment. Emphasis is placed on events since 1989, the year of revolution in Eastern Europe.
Download or read book Economics of Transition written by Hüsnü Kızılyallı and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume a new forecasting and planning methodology is developed for transforming a socialist, closed and/or mixed economy to a free-market economy. The method assures macroeconomic equilibrium and interalia determines equilibrating (foreign) exchange, wages, rates and so on. Whereas the swith to a free-market system (based on international prices) is immediate, other reforms and restructuring can be made gradual, taking into account political, economic and social constraints. The methodology makes use of existing structures and capital stock during transition, as against complete destruction brought about under big bang approaches. The method gives a good estimate of effects of every reform measure taken, which implies superiority over other forecasting techniques.
Download or read book Issues in Socialist Economy Reform written by Stanley Fischer and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crisis And Reform In Socialist Economies written by Peter Gey and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1987-06-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Price Liberalization in a Reforming Socialist Economy written by Mr.Domenico Fanizza and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bilateral search model of the commodity market is formulated to study the effects of liberalizing prices in a reforming socialist economy. The main result is that if the competitive structure of the economy is not quickly modified to eliminate supply rents, price liberalization may be accompanied by substantial output losses. A role for tax policy in limiting output losses is identified.
Download or read book Exchange Rate and the Price Level in Socialist Economies written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1990-05-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper examines how the evolution from a classical centrally planned economy to a more market-oriented system will enhance the linkage between the exchange rate and the domestic price level. However, during the transition--as the economy continues to be predominantly state-owned, the inherited production structure is only gradually modified, capital and labor mobility are still relatively low and financial discipline is less-than-complete--the elasticity of the domestic price level with respect to a change in the exchange rate, or, to a change in world market prices, may still be lower than in an otherwise comparable market economy.
Download or read book Macroeconomic Reform in China written by Jiwei Lou and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China is in the throes of two transitions: from a command economy to a market-based one and from a rural, agricultural society to an urban, industrial one. So far, both transitions have been spectacularly successful. China is the fastest-growing economy in the world, with per capita incomes more than quadrupling since 1978, achieving in two generations what took other countries centuries. Although swift growth and structural change have resolved many problems, they also have created new challenges: employment insecurity, growing inequality, stubborn poverty, mounting environmental pressures, rising costs of food self-sufficiency, and periods of macroeconomic instability stemming from incomplete reforms. Unmet, these challenges could undermine the sustainability of growth, and Chinas promise could fade. China 2020, a seven-volume set, examines China's recent history, where it is today, and the path it should follow during the first two decades of the 21st century. The volume in the set entitled, Clear Water, Blue Skies: Chinas Environment in the New Century explores the relationship between economic growth and the environment. Chapters review the harmful effects of all forms of pollution and discuss ways of securing higher environmental living standards. Particular attention is given to urban areas and the impact of pollution on health conditions.
Download or read book The Socialist System written by János Kornai and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand the dramatic collapse of the socialist order and the current turmoil in the formerly communist world, this comprehensive work examines the most important common properties of all socialist societies. JNBnos Kornai brings a life-long study of the problems of the socialist system to his explanation of why inherent attributes of socialism inevitably produced in-efficiency. In his past work he has focused on the economic sphere, maintaining consistently that the weak economic performance of socialist countries resulted from the system itself, not from the personalities of top leaders or mistakes made by leading organizations and planners. This book synthesizes themes from his earlier investigations, while broadening the discussion to include the role of the political power structure and of communist ideology. Kornai distinguishes between two types, or historical phases, of socialism. The "classical socialism" of Stalin, Mao, and their followers is totalitarian and brutally repressive, but its components fit together and make up a coherent edifice. Associated with names like Tito, KNBdar, Deng-Xiaoping, and Gorbachev, "reform socialism" relaxes repression, but brings about a sharpening of inner contradictions and the eventual dissolution of the system. Kornai examines the classical system in the first half of the book, and moves on to explore the complex process of reform in the second half. The Socialist System is addressed to economists in the first place, but also to political scientists, sociologists, and historians. In addition, it will appeal to policymakers, business analysts, and government officials who need to understand either formerly or presently communist countries.
Download or read book Consumption and Price written by Róbert Hoch and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reforming the State written by János Kornai and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe are entering the second decade of political transformation and economic reform. The new policy challenges center on the nature of the social contract between citizens and their governments. The essays in this volume focus on two interrelated issues: the making of fiscal policy and the provision of citizens' welfare, particularly regarding pensions and health care. The essays emphasize that there is no single model of a market economy; rather, governments and publics face a range of options for restructuring the socialist welfare state.
Download or read book Economic Reforms in the Socialist World written by Stanislaw,etc, Gomulka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1990. Socialist countries now account for about a quarter of the world economy, about a third of the world population and about half the world military power. What happens in those countries is therefore par excellence of importance to all of us. This book is an outcome of a Conference on Economic Systems and Reforms in a Changing World, held in Seoul in September 1987. The Conference was significant in several respects. Foremost was the fact that this was probably the first such meeting of scholars from both socialist and non-socialist countries held to discuss socialist economic reforms worldwide.
Download or read book The Socialist Price Mechanism written by Alan Abouchar and published by Durham : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of papers presented at a 1974 symposium on the socialist price mechanism held at the University of Toronto. The symposium examined the way socialist price concepts and price relationships serve such functions as measurement, allocation, and income distribution.
Download or read book Transition and Economics written by Gérard Roland and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transition from socialism to capitalism in former socialist economies has transformed the economic structure. This book provides an overview of research on the issues raised by the shift from collective to private ownership.
Download or read book The Affinity Between Ownership and Coordination Mechanisms written by János Kornai and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economics of Socialism written by J. WILCZYNSKI and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1970, Economics of Socialism covers all aspects of socialist economics: planning, profit, production and growth, investment, consumption, labor and land. The author then goes on to discuss pricing, money and banking, fiscal policy and control, and both domestic and foreign trade and international economic cooperation. The book is introduced by a background chapter on the socialist economic system, models of the socialist economy, the reforms, and the new socialist economics. It ends with a singularly objective comparison of socialist and capitalist economies and seeks to answer the question of whether the two systems are indeed converging. The book is based on socialist sources published in the Eastern European countries, which Professor Wilczynski has studied in the original, and which he is able to interpret against a first-hand knowledge of the countries concerned. He also provides a considerable apparatus which will be useful to students: a full glossary of socialist economic terms and extensive references for further reading in English. This is an interesting historical reference work for scholars and researchers of Soviet economics and Russian economics.
Download or read book The Hungarian Model written by Xavier Richet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-08-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the Hungarian economy and its attempts at economic reform over the last 20 years. It provides insight into the failures of the past and suggests ways that future pitfalls might be avoided.
