Institutional Barriers to Economic Development: Poland's Incomplete Transition / Edition 1

by Jan Winiecki

Overview

Poland's transition from socialism to capitalism has largely been praised as a success story. In reality, however, according to this study, Poland's case is an 'incomplete' transition.
Looking at the processes involved in economic transition, covering key issues including financial markets, labour markets, competition and intervention, social security, property rights and attitudes towards the changing political economy, this book provides a wide-ranging and invaluable study of economic development. It will be of great use to economists, those involved in Russian and East European studies, and political scientists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415163019
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/20/1997
Series:	Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition , #2
Pages:	126
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1460L (what's this?)

About the Author

Jan Winiecki is Professor of Economics at the European University-Viadrina, Germany, and Vice-President of the Polish Society of Market Economists. A former member of Walesa's political advisory committee, he was the founder and first president of the free market think-tank Adam Smith Research Center, and Executive Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He has three books published by Routledge, most recently as the co-editor, with A. Kondratowicz, of The Macroeconomics of Transition: Developments in East-Central Europe (1993).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction, Jan Winiecki; Chapter 2 Building Institutions in the Third Republic, Antoni Z. Kamiński, Jan Stefanowicz; Chapter 3 The Financial Markets, Jan Winiecki; Chapter 4 The Labor Market, Jan Winiecki; Chapter 5 Competition and Openness under Growing Interventionist Pressure, Jan Winiecki; Chapter 6 The Social Security System, Aleksandra Wiktorow; Chapter 7 Property Rights, Private Sector and Public Attitudes toward Institutional Change, Jacek Szymanderski, Jan Winiecki;