Paul J. J. Welfens

Broschiertes Buch

Market-oriented Systemic Transformations in Eastern Europe

Problems, Theoretical Issues, and Policy Options

Beschreibung

Socialist economies in Eastern Europe have collapsed and em-barked upon market-oriented reforms. The causes of thedemise of centrally planned economies are analyzed and thebasic challenges of systemic tranformation discussed.Negative income and wealth effects as well as distributionissues make adjustment extremely difficult. The fundamentalroles of privatization and foreign investment are adressed.Foreign economic liberalization is considered to be ofcentralimportance for a growth-oriented adjustment path ina stage of conflict-prone policy and options.Politico-economic aspects of the new European developmentsin addition to North-South issues are analyzed. Difficultchoices await decison-makers in economic policy and thebusiness community in Eastern Europe and in leading marketeconomies.

Autor

Paul J. J. Welfens, geb. 1957 in Düren, Studium der Volkswirtschaftslehre in Wuppertal, Duisburg und Paris, Promotion 1985, Habilitation1989. Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Volkswirtschaftslehre - Schwerpunkt Makroökonomische Theorie und Politik an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal; Präsident des Europäischen Instituts für Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen (EIIW); Jean-Monnet-Professor für Europäische Wirtschaftsintegration; zuvor Distinguished Research Fellow am AICGS/The Johns Hopkins University, Professor an der Universität Münster bzw. Potsdam, Visiting Alfred Grosser Professor Sciences Po, Paris.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-642-63482-6
• 1992
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 489g
• ISBN-13: 9783642634826
• ISBN-10: 3642634826
• Artikelnr.: 37035841