Reform in Eastern Europe - Rilegato

Blanchard, Olivier

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0262023288 ISBN 13: 9780262023283

Casa editrice: Mit Pr, 1999

Riassunto

How can the new governments of Eastern Europe succeed in moving from centrally planned to free-market economies? This report identifies the major policy choices to be made and discusses what will work and what will not. "Reform in Eastern Europe" provides a statement of reform policy that stands in the mainstream of modern Western economics. Based on their experience with stabilization polices in other countries, the authors show how Eastern Europe can reduce unemployment during the painful adjustment process, create effective and socially acceptable mechanisms to subject enterprises to market discipline, and replace barter trade under CMEA with market-based international trade. Although conditions vary from country to country in Eastern Europe, the authors argue that all countries must seek stabilization and price liberalization, privatization, and then economic restructuring. It describes and evaluates the alternatives available to eliminate fiscal deficits, control money creation, and decontrol prices while blunting the immediate painful effects of lower wages, unemployment, and other disruptions. The authors propose a plan for privatizing state-owned enterprises without placing them in the hands of those who accumulated wealth under the communist regimes. They recommend and detail methods for achieving orderly restructuring - in effect, closing most of the existing production structures and creating a whole new economy - covering issues of national saving, the creation of a financial intermediation system, the role of direct investment, labour allocation and unemployment.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Paul Krugman is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University and a New York Times columnist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2008.

Product Description:

Book by Blanchard Olivier

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Mit Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0262023288
• ISBN 13: 9780262023283
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 122