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Post-communist transition economies

Economics

Books on socialist planning and the move to markets in Russia, Poland, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Vietnam, including Kornai's work.

22 books on Post-communist transition economies, 1 of them tier 1.

22 books · 1 experts

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  1. The Socialist System: The Political Economy of CommunismJános Kornai, 1992
  2. Economics of ShortageJános Kornai, 1979
  3. Poland's Jump to the Market EconomyJeffrey Sachs, 1993
  4. Socialism, Capitalism, TransformationLeszek Balcerowicz, 1995
  5. From Plan to MarketAdam Fforde, Stefan de Vylder, 1996

The best books on Post-communist transition economies 22

The Socialist System: The Political Economy The Socialist System: The Political Economy of Communism
T1 The Socialist System: The Political Economy of Communism
János Kornai · 1992
The definitive anatomy of the command economy, by the Hungarian economist who named its pathologies.
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Economics of ShortageEconomics of Shortage
T2 Economics of Shortage
János Kornai · 1979
The soft budget constraint: why state firms never run out of money and never allocate well.
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Poland's Jump to the Market EconomyPoland's Jump to the Market Economy
T2 Poland's Jump to the Market Economy
Jeffrey Sachs · 1993
Shock therapy argued by one of its architects.
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Socialism, Capitalism, TransformationSocialism, Capitalism, Transformation
T2 Socialism, Capitalism, Transformation
Leszek Balcerowicz · 1995
Insider: the architect of shock therapy setting out his own reasoning.
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From Plan to MarketFrom Plan to Market
T2 From Plan to Market
Adam Fforde, Stefan de Vylder · 1996
The canonical doi moi study; reform as bottom-up fence-breaking, not decree.
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Sale of the CenturySale of the Century
T2 Sale of the Century
Chrystia Freeland · 2000
Loans-for-shares and the privatisation that created the oligarchs.
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Transition and EconomicsTransition and Economics
T2 Transition and Economics
Gerard Roland · 2000
The theory of sequencing: why gradualism beat shock therapy in some places.
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By Force of ThoughtBy Force of Thought
T2 By Force of Thought
János Kornai · 2006
Memoir by the economist who advised the reforms from inside the system.
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From Socialism to CapitalismFrom Socialism to Capitalism
T2 From Socialism to Capitalism
János Kornai · 2008
Kornai's own summary of what the transition did and cost.
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Europe's Growth Champion
T2 Europe's Growth Champion
Marcin Piatkowski · 2018
The best single account of why Poland converged and others did not.
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Taking Stock of Shock
T2 Taking Stock of Shock
Kristen R. Ghodsee, Mitchell Orenstein · 2021
The evidence on who actually gained and lost from the transition.
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Central and Eastern Europe, 1944-1993: DetouCentral and Eastern Europe, 1944-1993: Detour from the Periphery to the Periphery
T3 Central and Eastern Europe, 1944-1993: Detour from the Periphery to the Periphery
Ivan T. Berend · 1996
Economic history that explains the industrial base the Czechs privatised.
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The Rise and Fall of Czech CapitalismThe Rise and Fall of Czech Capitalism
T3 The Rise and Fall of Czech Capitalism
Martin Myant · 2003
The book on voucher privatisation, bank ownership and the tunnelling that followed.
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How Capitalism Was BuiltHow Capitalism Was Built
T3 How Capitalism Was Built
Anders Åslund · 2007
Comparative transition account; Czech vouchers judged against other sequencing choices.
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From the Soviet Bloc to the European UnionFrom the Soviet Bloc to the European Union
T3 From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union
Ivan T. Berend · 2009
Covers EU accession as the main driver of Romanian institutional change.
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Poland's New Capitalism
T3 Poland's New Capitalism
Jane Hardy · 2009
Foreign investment, labour and the costs of the transition, told critically.
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From Solidarity to SelloutFrom Solidarity to Sellout
T3 From Solidarity to Sellout
Tadeusz Kowalik · 2011
The critique of the transition's distributional cost.
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The Great Rebirth: Lessons from the Victory The Great Rebirth: Lessons from the Victory of Capitalism over Communism
T3 The Great Rebirth: Lessons from the Victory of Capitalism over Communism
Anders Åslund, Simeon Djankov · 2014
Includes the Czech voucher scheme written up by people who designed and criticised it.
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Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix ItUkraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It
T3 Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It
Anders Åslund · 2015
The oligarch model, gas trading rents and the post-Maidan reform agenda.
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Russia's Crony CapitalismRussia's Crony Capitalism
T3 Russia's Crony Capitalism
Anders Aslund · 2019
How the rent-extraction system is organised under Putin.
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The Central Asian Economies in the Twenty-FiThe Central Asian Economies in the Twenty-First Century
T3 The Central Asian Economies in the Twenty-First Century
Richard Pomfret · 2019
The standard economic survey: resource rents, transit corridors, reform records.
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How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and DemoHow Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy
T4 How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy
Anders Åslund · 2009
The 1991-2008 transition; explains where the industrial assets came from.
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