Transformace, reforma a třetí cesta

Reform, transition and the third way

Jiří Schwarz

Politická ekonomie, 2003, vol. 2003, issue 3, 407-421

Abstract: The command economy that the Czech Republic inherited from the communist system was considered unreformable. It seems as if the social and economic transition of ex-communist countries is necessary for their full inclusion among democratic countries with highly developed market economic systems. No new central European tiger has emerged since Erhard"s reform in the post-war West Germany, since welfare-statism also destroyed a genuine economic transition in the Czech Republic. Influential interest groups were able to interrupt the transition process and to stop it halfway in many areas. Political pressures to bring the Czech Republic closer to European Union's standards led to the passing of laws and government measures that were incompatible with the highly-regarded transition strategy. The development of public law at the expense of private law enforcement (in accordance with EU policy) led to the further expansion of bazaar capitalism in the Czech Republic.

Keywords: voucher privatization; public law; law enforcement; vested interests; lobby groups; regulatory bodies; bazaar capitalism; social market economy; private law; transition; economic liberalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 B29 D72 K10 P30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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