Institutional Frameworks of Market Economies

Current structural changes in Eastern Europe involve the setting up of an institutional framework for a market economy. The analysis of this process may benefit from comparison with Western "models". This text focuses on Poland and the Scandinavian (or negotiated economy) model. Top page

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The contemporary structural transformations in Eastern Europe involve, among other things, the setting up of an institutional framework for a market economy. The analysis of this process could benefit from comparison with Western "models". This text focuses on Poland and the Scandinavian (or negotiated economy) model. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Ashgate

City: Aldershot

Pages: 310

More info: height 219 mm width 153 mm weight 500 gr

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Age recommended: College/higher education

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey: 330.12 Library of Congress Subject: HD3616.S33

Summary Institutional Frameworks of Market Economies Introduction - post-socialism, the negotiated economy and other Western models, Jarry Hausner et al. Part 1 Theoretical perspectives: structural competitives and strategic capacities - rethinking state and international capital, Bob Jessop et al; institutional theory and the influence of foreign actors on reform in capitalist and post-socialist societies, John Campbell; catching up and institutional learning under post-socialism, Bjorn Johnson and Bengt-Ake Lundvall. Part 2 Scandinavian perspectives - the negotiated economy: the negotiated economy - general features and theoreticl perspectives, Klaus Nielsen and Ove K. Pedersen; natural resource-based industries - big business and the role of the state - the case of Norway's oil and gas, Ole Beerfjord and Per Heum; towards a new Swedish model, Victor A. Pestoff; the institutional history of the Danish polity - from a market and mixed to a negotiated economy, Ove K. Pedersen; private industrial policy in the Danish negotiated economy, Niels Akerstrom Andersen and Peter Kjaer. Part 3 Post-socialist perspectives - the Polish case: trends and perspectives in the development of a system of interest representation in post-socialist societies, Jerzy Hausner and Andrzej Wojtyna; out of corporatism towards neo-corporatism, Jaroslaw Gorniak and Jan Jerschina; social limitations for efficient allocations of resources in the post-socialist countries, Jan Czekaj and Stanislaw Owsiak; impact of political changes in processes occurring in an enterprise, Stanislaw Rudolf; prospects for employee ownership in the process of privatizing the Polish economy, Julian Pankow; the drifting society, Jerzy Mikulowski Pomorski. Top page

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