Description
The transition to market economies in Eastern Europe, considered in the light of Western experiences of seeking a middle way between classical liberalism and state socialism.
Table of Contents
I: The Transition to Private Property窶猫egal Perspectives; The Challenge of Privatization in the Former East Germany: Reconciling the Conflict between Individual Rights and Social Needs; The Uneasy Breach with Socialized Ownership: Legal Aspects of Privatization of State-owned Enterprises in Poland; Pensioners in America: The Economic Triumph and Political Limitations of Passive Ownership; II: The Transition to Market Economy窶� Economic Perspectives; The Transition to a Market Economy in Russia: Property Rights, Mass Privatization and Stabilization; Stabilization versus Privatization in Poland: A Sequencing Problem at Macro- and Microeconomic Levels; The Private Provision of Public Goods: Principles and Implications; III: The Emerging Social Order of the New Market Economies; Privatization in Poland: The Evolution of Opinions and Interests, 1988窶�1992; Private Farm Ownership in a Changing Poland: Myth and Reality; Social Consciousness in Transition: Toward a New Economic and Political System; Beyond Constructivism and Rationality of Discovery: Economic Transformation and Institution-Building Processes; New Forms of State Ownership in Poland: The Case of Commercialization; Has State Ownership Truly Abandoned Socialism? The Survival of Socialist Economy and Law in Postcommunist Hungary; Privatization as a Gender Issue; IV: Toward A Fourth Way窶� Programmatic Statements; Neither the Market Nor the State: Housing Privatization Issues; Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives As A Mode of Privatization; Republicanism, Market Socialism, and the Third Way; Legal Theory and Democratic Reconstruction: Reflections on 1989
