Nove / Höhmann / Seidenstecher The East European Economies in the 1970s

Butterworths Studies in International Political Economy
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4831-6344-4
Verlag: Elsevier Reference Monographs
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E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

The East European Economies in the 1970s reviews the development of economic policy in Eastern Europe in the 1970s. This book includes individual country studies that compare and contrast both the aims of economic development and the results of the growth process, as well as the instruments employed in economic policy. More specifically, this book examines what has happened during the past decade after the fundamental changes in economic policy that occurred in the 1960s.
This text is comprised of 10 chapters; the first of which provides a background on economic reform in Eastern Europe during the 1970s. Attention then turns to the economic policy, methods, and performance of the USSR after 1970. The chapters that follow focus on the German Democratic Republic, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and Yugoslavia. This book concludes with a discussion on the economic system of Albania in the 1970s, focusing on the country's conservative radicalism, agriculture, and sharp disputes on economic policy between 1974 and 1976. Throughout the book, the emphasis is on how the ''process of reconstruction within the system'' has led to increasing differentiation of aims, institutions, and instruments of economic policy between individual countries.
This book will be of interest to political science students, political scientists, political economists, and policy analysts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nove, Alec

Höhmann, Hans-Hermann

Seidenstecher, Gertraud

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;The East European Economies in the 1970s;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;14
5;Acknowledgements;6
6;Foreword;8
7;Contributors;10
8;CHAPTER 1. Economic reform in the 1970s —policy with no alternative;16
8.1;1.1 The road to reform;16
8.2;1.2 The retreat from reform;20
8.3;1.3 Why no more extensive reform?;24
8.4;References;31
9;CHAPTER 2. USSR: economic policy and methods after 1970;32
9.1;2.1 Survey of policy, methods and performance in the last decade;32
9.2;2.2 Fundamental defects of the centralized planning system;40
9.3;2.3. New attempts at reform;51
9.4;Notes;59
9.5;References;59
10;CHAPTER 3. The GDR–economic policy caught between pressure for efficiency and lack of ideas;60
10.1;3.1 From indirect steering to direct control;60
10.2;3.2 Aims, methods and instruments of recentralization;64
10.3;3.3 Between excessive bureaucracy and lack of efficiency;83
10.4;Notes;96
10.5;References;99
11;CHAPTER 4. Aims, methods and political determinants of the economic policy of Poland 1970–1980;106
11.1;4.1. Introduction;106
11.2;4.2 Development 1971–1975;109
11.3;4.3 Factors of development in 1971–1975;113
11.4;4.4. Growing tensions in the economy;119
11.5;4.5 Economic reform;123
11.6;4.6 1976–1980: Plans and results;137
11.7;Notes;149
11.8;References;152
12;CHAPTER 5. Aims and methods of economic policy in Czechoslovakia 1970–1978;154
12.1;5.1. The aims of economic policy in the 1970s;154
12.2;5.2 Ways and means of economic policy in the 1970s;170
12.3;5.3 Economic growth and efficiency;182
12.4;5.4 Conclusion;190
12.5;Notes;192
12.6;References;193
13;CHAPTER 6. Problems and trends in the development of the Hungarian new economic mechanism: a balance sheet of the 1970s;195
13.1;6.1 Centralization, decentralization, recentralization–a survey of the changes in the Hungarian economic order;195
13.2;6.2 Problems of functioning and revisions of instruments in the 1970s;197
13.3;6.3 Ten years of the new economic mechanism–an attempt at a Balance sheet;218
13.4;6.4 Revision of strategy for the 1980s;222
13.5;References;228
14;CHAPTER 7. Economic development and planning in Bulgaria in the 1970s;230
14.1;7.1 Aspects of economic development at the threshold of the1970s;231
14.2;7.2 Performance in the 1970s;233
14.3;7.3 Technical progress and foreign trade;238
14.4;7.4 Agriculture;240
14.5;7.5 Living standards and conditions;242
14.6;7.6 The system of planning and management;247
14.7;7.7 Impetus for and resistance to change;253
14.8;7.8 Statistical appendix;257
14.9;Notes;266
14.10;References;266
15;CHAPTER 8. Economic reform in Romania in the1970s;268
15.1;8.1 Publications on the Romanian system;268
15.2;8.2 The period between reforms, 1972–1978;269
15.3;8.3 The 'new economic mechanism' and its implementation,1978–1980;279
15.4;Notes;291
15.5;References;292
16;CHAPTER 9. Objectives and methods of economic policies in Yugoslavia, 1970–1980;295
16.1;9.1. Introduction;295
16.2;9.2 The economic objectives of the Yugoslav revolution;297
16.3;9.3 The Yugoslav economy in the 1970s;299
16.4;9.4. Prospects for the future;327
16.5;Notes;328
16.6;References;328
17;CHAPTER 10. The economic system of Albania in the1970s: developments and problems;330
17.1;10.1 Conservative radicalism;330
17.2;10.2 Genesis of the present system;331
17.3;10.3 The adaptations of 1970;336
17.4;10.4 Incentives;340
17.5;10.5 Agricultural organization;345
17.6;10.6 Sharp disputes on economic policy, 1974–1976;346
17.7;Notes;355
17.8;References;356
18;Index;358