| Notice |
| Task Force on Economies in Transition |
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| Contributors |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction
| 1 |
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I Overview | 11 |
| Understanding Economic Change
| 13 |
| Douglass C. North | |
II Institutional Change, Property Rights, and Corruption |
19 |
| Underground Activity and Institutional Change: Productive,
Protective, and Predatory Behavior in Transition Economies
| 21 |
| Edgar L. Feige | |
| 1 Property
Rights in Transition Economies: A Commentary on
What Economists Know | 35 |
| Alexandra Benham and Lee Benham
| |
| 2 Rethinking the Theory of Economic Policy:
Some Implications of the New Institutionalism | 61 |
|
Thráinn Eggertsson
| |
| 3 Missed
Markets: Implications for Economic Behavior and
Institutional Change | 80 |
| Leonid Polishchuk
| |
| 4 Fuzzy
Property: Rights, Power, and Identity in
Transylvania's Decollectivization | 102 |
| Katherine Verdery
| |
| 5
Rule Evasion in Transitional Russia | 118 |
|
James Leitzel | |
III Transforming Management, Labor, and Production |
131 |
| Restructuring Production Without Market Infrastructure |
133 |
| Judith Thornton | |
| 6 Learning in
Networks: Enterprise Behavior in the Former
Soviet Union and Contemporary Russia | 156 |
| Yevgeny Kuznetsov
| |
| 7 Formal
Employment and Survival Strategies After Communism | 177 |
| Simon Johnson, Daniel Kaufman, and Oleg Ustenko
| |
| 8 Observations
on the Speed of Transition in Russia:
Prices and Entry | 203 |
| Daniel Berkowitz and David N. DeJong
| |
| 9 Social Policy
and the Labor Market in Russia During Transition | 223 |
|
Alastair McAuley | |
IV Social Trends, Household Behavior, and Social-Sector Policies |
245 |
| Social Costs, Social-Sector Reforms, and Politics in
Post-Communist Transformations |
247 |
| Joan M. Nelson | |
| 10 Reform of
the Welfare Sector in the Post-Communist Countries:
A Normative Approach | 272 |
| János Kornai
| |
| 11 Social
Policy Challenges and Dilemmas in Ex-Socialist Systems | 299 |
| Zsuzsa Ferge
| |
| 12
Health Reform in Russia and Central Asia | 322 |
Jeni Klugman and George Schieber with Timothy Heleniak
and Vivian Hon
| |
| 13
Vulnerable Populations in Central Europe | 351 |
Barbara Boyle Torrey, Timothy M. Smeeding, and
Debra Bailey
| |
| 14 Pension
Reform in the Post-Communist Transition Economies | 370 |
| Louise Fox
| |
| 15 From Safety
Nets to Social Policy: Lessons for the
Transition Economies from the Developing Countries | 385 |
| Carol Graham
| |
V Transforming the Role of the State |
401 |
| Democracy, Social Change, and Economies in Transition |
403 |
| Charles Tilly
| |
| 16 The State
in a Market Economy | 411 |
| Adam Przeworski
| |
| 17 The State
as an Ensemble of Economic Actors:
Some Inferences from China's Trajectory of Change | 432 |
| Andrew G. Walder
| |
| 18 Possible
Future Directions for Economies in Transition | 453 |
Anders Åslund
VI Research Priorities for Post-Communist Economies |
471 |
| Research Priorities for Post-Communist Economies
| 473 |
|
Task Force on Economies in Transition | |
| Appendix: Further Reading |
491 |
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| Index
| 497 |
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