Poland
The most successful post-communist transition in Europe, built on shock therapy, EU accession funds and a large domestic market; the English-language business literature is thin and mostly about the transition itself.
8 books · 1 people behind it
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- Europe's Growth ChampionMarcin Piatkowski, 2018
- How Capitalism Was BuiltAnders Aslund, 2007
- Socialism, Capitalism, TransformationLeszek Balcerowicz, 1995
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Academics 1
Books 8
Norman Davies · 1981 · The long history that explains the institutional starting point.
Jeffrey Sachs · 1993 · Shock therapy argued by one of its architects.
Leszek Balcerowicz · 1995 · Insider: the architect of shock therapy setting out his own reasoning.
Anders Aslund · 2007 · Comparative account of the transitions; Poland is the reference case.
Marcin Piatkowski · 2018 · The best single account of why Poland converged and others did not.
David Ost · 2005 · How the union that won the transition lost the workplace that followed.
Jane Hardy · 2009 · Foreign investment, labour and the costs of the transition, told critically.
Tadeusz Kowalik · 2011 · The critique of the transition's distributional cost.