Unemployment In Capitalist Communist And Post Communist Economies

Author : J. Porket
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230374220
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unemployment in Capitalist, Communist and Post-Communist Economies written by J. Porket and published by Springer. This book was released on 1995-04-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No modern economy can escape open unemployment as long as free labour and a free labour market exist. In any modern economy, there exists a tension between economic individualism and economic collectivism, but market forces cannot forever be denied. While Part 1 examines open and hidden unemployment in capitalist market economies and socialist command economies prior to 1989, Part 2 concentrates on the issue of unemployment in post-communist economies between 1989 and the end of 1993. Finally, Part 3 summarizes, re- examines, and expands on those selected dimensions of the issue of unemployment that are deemed currently to be relevant to both Western and post-communist economies. Although the book is primarily about unemployment, open as well as hidden, it also is about economic systems and their transformation and, hence, about the role of the state in the economy.

Author : Olivier Blanchard
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191521779
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Post-Communist Transition written by Olivier Blanchard and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1997-08-28 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transition in Central and Eastern Europe has led to a U-shaped response of output: a sharp decline in output followed by recovery. Most of the countries of Central Europe seem now firmly on the upside; most of the countries of Eastern Europe are still close to the bottom of the U: an optimistic view is that they are now negotiating the turn. Olivier Blanchard, a distinguished economist who has worked on transition since its beginning, is one of the first to present a unified analysis of the process of transition. The U-shaped response of output, its causes and its implications, are the subject of this book. The text is split into four chapters. The first reviews the facts; the second focuses on the two basic mechanisms underlying transition: reallocation and restructuring; the third looks more closely at a number of issues, from the interactions between restructuring and privatization to the nature of the labour market in transition; the fourth chapter pulls the material together in an analytical model of transition. This model is then used to discuss policy issues, from the design of privatization to the role of fiscal policy in transition.

Author : Al Rainnie
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415249422
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Work, Employment and Transition written by Al Rainnie and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together a series of essays by leading international scholars highlighting the varied and complex forms which work and employment restructuring are taking in the post-Soviet world.

Author : Phineas Baxandall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135116130X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing Unemployment written by Phineas Baxandall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the longest economic boom in history has given way to leaner times, unemployment has re-emerged as a major issue. This theoretically and empirically sophisticated book examines how unemployment takes on widely different political meanings and explores the ways in which governments act to change their own accountability for unemployment. It contributes to the comparative political economy literature that analyzes political responses to economic problems. Baxandall reverses a conventional application of comparative research by using an Eastern European case to reveal political dynamics that are mirrored in the West - as demonstrated with American and Western European cases. Using interviews and previously unexplored archives to consider a dramatic transformation in the meaning of unemployment in Hungary, he demonstrates how the politics of economic change depend crucially on the political re-crafting of economic categories.

Author : Susan L. Woodward
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691219656
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socialist Unemployment written by Susan L. Woodward and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first political analysis of unemployment in a socialist country, Susan Woodward argues that the bloody conflicts that are destroying Yugoslavia stem not so much from ancient ethnic hatreds as from the political and social divisions created by a failed socialist program to prevent capitalist joblessness. Under Communism the concept of socialist unemployment was considered an oxymoron; when it appeared in postwar Yugoslavia, it was dismissed as illusory or as a transitory consequence of Yugoslavia's unorthodox experiments with worker-managed firms. In Woodward's view, however, it was only a matter of time before countries in the former Soviet bloc caught up with Yugoslavia, confronting the same unintended consequences of economic reforms required to bring socialist states into the world economy. By 1985, Yugoslavia's unemployment rate had risen to 15 percent. How was it that a labor-oriented government managed to tolerate so clear a violation of the socialist commitment to full employment? Proposing a politically based model to explain this paradox, Woodward analyzes the ideology of economic growth, and shows that international constraints, rather than organized political pressures, defined government policy. She argues that unemployment became politically "invisible," owing to its redefinition in terms of guaranteed subsistence and political exclusion, with the result that it corrupted and ultimately dissolved the authority of all political institutions. Forced to balance domestic policies aimed at sustaining minimum standards of living and achieving productivity growth against the conflicting demands of the world economy and national security, the leadership inadvertently recreated the social relations of agrarian communities within a postindustrial society.

Author : Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Capitalism After the Collapse of Communism written by Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sanel Muranovic
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668336164
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparison of Communist and Capitalist Economies. Is "Shock Therapy" the Best Option during Transition? written by Sanel Muranovic and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Economics - Other, grade: 2,00, University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg, language: English, abstract: This paper compares and contrasts communist party and economic planning in a socialist system with the prices and the market in a capitalist economy. It discusses the successes, failures, effectiveness and flaws of each system in terms of economic and social aspects. Is shock therapy the right approach for a stable long term transition?

Author : William Keegan
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spectre of Capitalism written by William Keegan and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1992 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author argues that with the collapse of communism, world leaders must now answer the question about the kind of capitalism that is going to replace bankrupt economies. This book highlights the success of a mixed economy that combines a free market with state responsibility for infrastructure.

Author : D. N. Ashton
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unemployment Under Capitalism written by D. N. Ashton and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1986-02-13 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attacks the notion that unemployment is "natural" or "inevitable" and argues that it is a predictable consequence of economic, social and political decisions.

Author : Mr.James Roaf
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1498305636
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regional Economic Issues--Special Report 25 Years of Transition written by Mr.James Roaf and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past 25 years have seen a dramatic transformation in Europe’s former communist countries, resulting in their reintegration with the global economy, and, in most cases, major improvements in living standards. But the task of building full market economies has been difficult and protracted. Liberalization of trade and prices came quickly, but institutional reforms—such as governance reform, competition policy, privatization and enterprise restructuring—often faced opposition from vested interests. The results of the first years of transition were uneven. All countries suffered high inflation and major recessions as prices were freed and old economic linkages broke down. But the scale of output losses and the time taken for growth to return and inflation to be brought under control varied widely. Initial conditions and external factors played a role, but policies were critical too. Countries that undertook more front-loaded and bold reforms were rewarded with faster recovery and income convergence. Others were more vulnerable to the crises that swept the region in the wake of the 1997 Asia crisis.