Transition Economies: Transformation, Development, and Society in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

✍ Scribed by Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 293
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Part I Introduction: the great unknowns
1 The great unknowns: post-socialist economies and societies in motion
Introductory remarks
Where are they on the map?
Leading to the great unknowns
Problem: transition? Transition from? Transition to?
Conclusion
Appendix
2 Transition vs. transformation: what is clear and not so clear about transition economics
In search of a transition: definitions
Transition vs. transformation
The transformation
Was it inevitable?
The totality of the social and economic dynamic
The dialectics of transition
Conclusion
Part II The planned economy
3 The economic and social context at the turn of the twentieth century: from the Russian Empire to the Soviet Union
In the beginning there was . . .
The emancipation of the serfs in 1861
The allure of early capitalism before the Russian revolution
Emergence of the Leninist State
The New Economic Policy
Industrialization, collectivization, debates, and the first Five-Year Plans
Initial analysis
Conclusion
4 The war economy and post-World War II reconstruction in the USSR
The setting
Emerging transformation right before the war
The war economy
Post-war recovery in the USSR
More on central planning Soviet-style
Conclusion
5 From war to wall to common market: the dialectics of the Eastern European socialist economy
The new political landscape of Europe
Before and around the wall: the political economy of Eastern Europe
Socialist economics in Eastern Europe immediately after WWII
A model of the common market
Crisis in disguise?
Conclusion
Part III The economics of the market reform
6 The socialist economic model, market socialism, stagnation, perestroika, and the end of plan
The socialist economic model
Market socialism or self-management
Right before 1985
The world order shaken: perestroika and the Berlin Wall
Macroeconomic challenges and opportunities
Conclusion: the end of plan
7 Free market reform: liberalization, privatization, shock therapy, and policy misfortunes
Setting the stage
What happened during the 1990s
Macroeconomics of human transition
Conceptualizing the reform
Privatization
The shock therapy debates
Conclusion
Appendix
Part IV The human transition: still happening
8 Poverty, income inequality, labor migration, and diaspora potential
Introduction
Poverty and income inequality
Labor migration
Diaspora and economic development
Measuring diaspora’s effectiveness
Some new and not so new policy proposals
Conclusion: diaspora model and social costs of transition
Appendix
Part V The roaring 2000s and the present
9 Contours of the new era post-transition economy: they are all different
The character of the new millennium
The “roaring” 2000s
Financial sector development
Regional integration and foreign direct investment
Conclusion
Appendix
10 Facing the present by knowing the past
Why the present
The macroeconomic (competitive) aspect
Human transition (again)
Institutions
Finding a place in the present
Of the future
References
Index