Main Economic Policy Areas of the EC: After 1992 is a completely rewritten version of past editions. It examines successes and problems associated with the EC's main economic policy areas and makes proposals for the future. For the first time, a chapter on the very important policy area of...

This book is a selection of papers presented at the Fourth Villa Colombella seminar on the topic of the relationship between the preferences of citizens for public policies and how (or whether) these get expressed as political demands by interest groups, political parties and governments....

The political revolutions since mid-1989 in the eastern part of Europe have ushered two ambitions into the purview of the new political leaders of most transition economies: pluralistic political democracy and a market economy based overwhelmingly on private property and self-interest, with a...

Stabilization and Privatization: An Economic Evaluation of the Shock Therapy Program is the first comprehensive account of Poland's economic transition since mid-1989. Monetary stabilization, trade liberalization (including convertibility) and privatization of state capital assets are discussed....

1 Stabilization programs — assumptions, background, implementation -- 2 Postsocialist economy and stabilization policy -- 3 Stabilization in Yugoslavia -- 4 Polish hyperinflation and stabilization 1989–1991 -- 5 Stabilization in Viet Nam -- 6 Stabilization, transformation and growth....

With the revolutions in eastern Europe since mid-1989, two main transformations are envisaged: pluralistic political democracy and a market economy based largely on private property and self-interest. One element that straddles those two objectives is what to do with state-owned property during...

The entire world was taken by surprise when 1990 brought an end to Soviet communism in Europe and thus a genuine end to World War II. The fact that these developments surprised not only the leaders and the people of the countries concerned, but also scholars is an extraordinary challenge to the...

1. Backdrop to the payments constraint -- 2. Consensual transition policies -- 3. Regional cooperation and economic reform -- 4. Backdrop to the proposal to create a payments union -- 5. Toward convertibility through a payments union -- 6. Organization -- 1. The prevailing socioeconomic...