The Polish Economic Crisis - Background, Circumstances and Causes

List of contents

INTRODUCTION 1 INVESTMENT 2 EXTERNAL ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIPS 3 INFLATION 4 AGRICULTURE 5 LABOUR SUPPLY 6 LABOUR POLICY 7 THE VIEWS OF POLISH ECONOMISTS 8 LEGITIMACY 9 THE AFTERMATH OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS, CONCLUSION

About the author

Batara Simatupang is Research Fellow in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of a number of articles published in professional journals. These include ‘Polish agriculture in the 1970s and the prospects for early 1980’ (1982), ‘The Polish economic crisis’ (1983) and ‘Economic crisis and full employment: the Polish case’ (1988).

Summary

Simatupang examines the circumstances that led to the revolution of 1989, primarily the economic slump of the 1980s and the severe recession that preceeded it, and its effects on the Polish people.

Product details

• Authors: Batara Simatupang, Simatupang Batara
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.1993
• EAN: 9780415088244
• ISBN: 978-0-415-08824-4
• No. of pages: 268
• Weight: 660 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, Poland, Economic history, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989