An Inquiry into the Early Drastic Fall of Output in Post-communist Transition: An Unsolved Puzzle

Jan Winiecki

Post-Communist Economies, 2002, vol. 14, issue 1, 5-29

Abstract: The early (drastic) output fall has been the major bone of contention among theorists in the early years of transition. This author looks at the issue from the vantage point of the communist economic legacy, i.e. so-called 'pure socialist production', unneeded under a less wasteful economic system. Excessive inputs, excessive investments, excessive armaments, as well as some other excesses disappeared in the early phase of a shift to the market (and democracy). Likewise disappeared trade with the former 'fraternal' countries, which also began restoring economic sanity and did not need 'pure socialist production' anymore. The article reviews the most often found explanations of the output fall in early transition and finds them much less satisfactory than the elimination of the 'pure socialist production' of the past.

Date: 2002
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