Hungarian Model - Markets and Planning in a Socialist Economy

Klappentext This book provides an exceptionally thorough treatment of the Hungarian economy and its experience of economic reform. Zusammenfassung This book provides an exceptionally thorough treatment of the Hungarian economy and its experience of economic reform. Within a wider discussion of the appliance and success of Soviet-type economies (STEs)! the author investigates the decentralising measures and market mechanisms which have been progressively introduced and considers the limits on and limitations of the Hungarian economic model. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Foreword; 1. A model of market socialism?; 2. The centralization and decentralization of the socialist economy; 3. Opening up the centralized model; 4. The instruments of indirect guidance; 5. Macro-economic planning and the behaviour of agents; 6. Investment choices; 7. Adaptations of the decentralized model; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Xavier Richet
• Assisted by: J. C. Whitehouse (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2008
• EAN: 9780521060646
• ISBN: 978-0-521-06064-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics