This book starts from the premise that economic liberalization - reduced state interference in economic life - is the common element in the current trend towards privatization and deregulation in the West and economic reform and restructuring in the East. In popular parlance, "privatization" and "perestroika" are its watchwords, Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev its heralds. But the specific character of the liberalization will be determined by the social characteristics of different societies. In order to study the reform process in the two systems, it is necessary to dispose of a general conceptual framework capable of embracing both a (predominantly) market economy and a (predominantly) centrally planned economy. The key objective of this work is to provide such a unified framework, and on that basis to analyze the policy conflicts that dominated both systems in the 1980s and the prospects for further change in the years ahead.
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"Privatization" and "perestroika" are the watchwords of processes of curtailing state interference in the economic sphere which is taking place in both the West and the East. This book analyzes the social and economic pressures created by these processes and posits likely future developments.
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ISBN
9780873325684
Publisert
1989-01-31
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M.E. Sharpe
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
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Engelsk
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