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This book's starting point is that after two decades of experiments, during which other transition economies have effectively privatised all of their former state enterprises, China is still endeavouring to find a way to reinvent and re-engineer its own state-owned economic establishments. The...
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market-based economies within a democratic polity after a long period of communist rule (Russia and Eastern Europe) or …
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privatization * labour market and industrial policy, including an analysis of wage restraint and cost reduction * the prospects for …
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Modern liberalism asserts the transcendental, autonomous self's 'natural rights' against others' moralistic and political preferences, and regards the economist's utilitarian social welfare theory as instrumental to the achievement of 'social justice'. Timothy Roth argues that the liberal...
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and bureaucracy. It encompasses sections on organisational boundaries, neo-Schumpeterian theories, hierarchy and … bureaucracy are viewed today and has included papers from conflicting ends of the spectrum to illustrate the fluid and evolving …. Cambridge, MA: Press. -- Niskanen, W. (1968) 'Non-Market Decision Making: The Peculiar Economics of Bureaucracy', American …
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This major book presents an objective and penetrating economic analysis of stabilization and reform in Eastern Europe, combined with a compassionate plea for individual rights and solidarity. János Kornai - one of the most famous Hungarian economists of his generation - focuses on two main...
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This comparative analysis of growth, structural change and labour market dynamics in the Greater Mekong countries (Yunnan Province in China, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar) of Southeast Asia is the first of its kind. It explores economic integration and cooperation, the...
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Recent acceleration of the Indian economic growth rate from 6 to 8 per cent has sparked worldwide speculation that India is about to catch up with China and become another Asian miracle economy. Economic Reform in China and India examines this prospect, reviewing the development strategies...
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China in the Global Economy focuses on the theme of twin transitions occurring in the Chinese economy: the transition from a centrally planned economic system to a market oriented one, and from an agrarian to a modern industrialised society. China's exporters face unprecedented competition in...
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