Publisher's Synopsis
Essays by American and European authors on diverse topics, aimed at transforming the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe into economic powerhouses on the lines of Germany and Japan. Essays include: the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe; market order or commanded chaos; property rights and contract in the Soviet second economy; can a planned market economy function?; interest groups and structural reform of authoritarian socialist regimes; and recent changes in the Hungarian economy; economic reform in Lithuania.
