Catching Up and Falling Behind:Post-Communist Transformation in Historical Perspective

David A Dyker
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David A Dyker: University of Sussex, UK

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Abstract: In this collection of essays David A Dyker explores some of the most difficult and fascinating aspects of the process of transition from autocratic “real socialism” to a capitalism that is sometimes democratic, sometimes authoritarian. The stress is on the economic dimension of transformation, but the author sets the economic drama firmly within a political economy framework and a historical perspective. Trends in key economic variables are analysed against the background of the struggle between different social and political groups for power and command over resources. While the book pays due attention to topical issues like EU enlargement, the underlying perspective is a long-term one. Transition is viewed not as a set of once-and-for-all institutional changes or a process of short-term stabilisation, but as a historic opportunity to solve the inherited problem of poverty and underdevelopment in Central-East Europe and the former Soviet Union. The book ends with a critical assessment of how economics, as a discipline, has coped with the challenge of that historic opportunity.

Keywords: Nomenklatura Nationalism; Transition; Post-Socialist; Russian R&D; Former Soviet Union; Social Capability; Technology Absorption; EU Enlargement; Economic Development; Supply Networks; Central-East Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
ISBN: 9781860944345
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Transforming The Post-Socialist Economies: Patterns and Paradoxes , pp 3-21

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Ch 2 Nomenklatura Nationalism — The Key to an Understanding of the New East European Politics? , pp 25-50

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Ch 3 The Structural Origins of the Russian Economic Crisis , pp 51-83

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Ch 4 Technology and Structure in the Polish Economy Under Transition and Globalisation , pp 87-114

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Ch 5 Trade Policy for the Countries of the Former Soviet Union (FSU): What Can the Advanced Industrial Countries Do to Help? , pp 115-135

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Ch 6 The Dynamic Impact on the Central-East European Economies of Accession to the European Union: Social Capability and Technology Absorption , pp 139-170

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Ch 7 “East”-“West” Networks and their Alignment: Industrial Networks in Hungary and Slovenia , pp 171-200

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Ch 8 Key Actors in the Process of Innovation and Technology Transfer in the Context of Economic Transition , pp 203-216

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Ch 9 Technology Exchange and the Foreign Business Sector in Russia , pp 217-251

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Ch 10 Building the Knowledge-Based Economy in Countries in Transition: From Concepts to Policies , pp 252-288

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Ch 11 Economic Performance in the Transition Economies: A Comparative Perspective , pp 291-321

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Ch 12 Building Social Capability for Economic Catch-Up: The Experience and Prospects of the Post-Socialist Countries , pp 322-341

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Ch 13 What Transition Has Learned from Economics — and What Economics Has Learned from Transition , pp 345-368

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