Creating Capitalism
Subtitle: Transitions and Growth in Post-Soviet Europe
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub; Edward Elgar
Published: December 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781840647334
Subjects: Capitalist or free market economies; Development economics; Central Europe; Eastern Europe; Europe; Development - Economic Development; Strategic Planning; Business & Economics; 1989-; Capitalism; Economic conditions; Europe, Eastern; Former Soviet republics; Business/Economics
Description: "Employing historical analysis and building on growth theory and modern political economy, Dillon and Wykoff explain Soviet disintegration and analyze efforts to create capitalism in newly independent states. They show how five fundamental economic reforms generate growth, and use an original model to test the connections between reform, elections and economic performance.".

"The authors examine the progress of six countries (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Russia and Slovakia) in terms of each country's history and its successful application of the five reforms. Anyone interested in how capitalism works and why pro-market reforms encounter resistance in spite of their potential for generating higher living standards will find this book essential reading."--BOOK JACKET.