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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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General Framework of Comparison
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Ownership Reform and Privatization
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The Role of the State and Market in Transition
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Lessons Beyond the First Decade of Transformation
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Back Matter
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"[C]ontain[s] a wealth of information about China's economic development since 1978... Recommended." - CHOICE
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
TSUNEAKI SATO is Professor Emeritus, Yokohama City University, Japan. Between 1987 and 1991 he was President of the Japan Association for Comparative Economic Studies (JACES). He was on the Editorial Board of the international journal Comparative Economic Studies (1991-95), and worked as temporary research staff with the UN (1992-93, 96-97). He has written extensively on the economic reforms in the former Soviet and Eastern European Countries and then systemic transformation in these countries. In the late 1980s and 1990s, he took part in a number of advisory groups for Transition countries. At a conference in Moscow early in June 1992, he strongly argued against Jeffrey Sachs. His major work after the Transformation is The Economic System of Post-Socialism (Iwanami Pub., Tokyo, 1997, in Japanese). His contributions to international publications include Moct-Most (No.1, 1995), Economic Systems (No.2, 1999), Privatization in the Transition Process : Recent Experiences in Eastern Europe, (UNCTAD, Geneve, 1994), Re-evaluating Economic Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe since 1989 (Budapest, 1996) and The 10-Year Review of Transitional Economies and Challenges in the Next Decade (UNIDO, Vienna, 2001).
WILLIAM E. JAMES is a Principal Economist at the Asian Development Bank, Philippines. He regularly contributes to the Asian Development Outlook and writes extensively on Asian economic issues. He has served as advisor to trade, finance ministers and central banks in Asia and taught at several universities in Japan and the US.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transition from Socialist to Market Economies
Book Subtitle: Comparison of European and Asian Experiences
Editors: Shinichi Ichimura, Tsuneaki Sato, William James
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230244986
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-22803-0Published: 22 October 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-30989-4Published: 22 October 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-24498-6Published: 21 October 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 280
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Regional/Spatial Science, International Economics, Political Economy/Economic Systems, Development Economics, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods