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MIT Press Ltd Going Global: Transition From Plan To Market In The World Economy by Padma Desai
The transition of the former socialist and otherwise centrally planned economies into the world trading and financial system has become a major concern to both policymakers and social scientists. In this book experts from diverse economies address the principal issues raised by this transition. The chapters, which cover fourteen countries of East and Central Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Asia, are the result of a three-year research project. Although the contributors share a unity of design and analysis, each author focuses on the issues most relevant to the country or countries under discussion. In her introductory essay, project leader Padma Desai synthesizes the findings and cuts through recent analytical confusion over such issues as shock therapy versus gradualism. Rather than advocate the faster the better, she discusses the possible difficulty of sustaining rapid transition reforms and globalization in the face of rising unemployment. The countries discussed are the Czech Republic, Hungary, the German Democratic Republic (now eastern Germany), Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, China, Vietnam, and India.ContributorsThe Czech Republic, Josef C. Brada and A. M. Kutan. Hungary, Andras Blaho and Peter Gal. East Germany, Jurgen von Hagen. Poland, Stanislaw Wellisz. Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, Kalev Kukk. Finland, Urpo Kivikari. Russia, Padma Desai. Kazakhstan, Heiner Flassbeck, Lutz Hoffman, and Ludger Lindlar. Uzbekistan, Michael Connolly. China, Richard S. Eckaus. Vietnam, David Dollar and Borje Ljunggren. India, Manmohan Agarwal
Table of contents
Part 1 Central and East Europe: the Czech Republic, Josef C. Brada and Ali M. Kutan; Hungary, Andras Blaho and Peter Gal; East Germany, Jurgen von Hagen; Poland, Stanislaw Wellisz. Part 2 The North European economies: the Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Kalev Kukk; Finland, Urpo Kivikari. Part 3 The post-Soviet states: Russia, Padma Desai; Kazakhstan, Heiner Flassbeck et al; Uzbekistan, Michael Connolly. Part 4 East, Southeast and South Asia: China, Richard S. Eckaus; Vietnam, David Dollar and Borje Ljunggren; India, Manmohan Agarwal.
Review quote
"This book presents a careful and advanced analysis of liberalization ofsocialist economics into the global trading and financial systems. Theessays collected in this book, as well as the excellent introduction, willbe of great value to both the scholar and the general audience interestedin transition." Andrei Shleifer , Department of Economics, Harvard University
About Padma Desai
Padma Desai is the Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems and director of the Center for Transition Economies at Columbia University. A leading scholar of the Russian economy, she is the author of Conversations on Russia: Reform from Yeltsin to Putin, which was the Financial Times Pick of the Year in 2007, and coathor of Work Without Wages: Russia's Non-Payment Crisis (MIT Press). Her most recent book, on the current economic crisis, is From Financial Crisis to Global Recovery.