Transformations in Hungary
Subtitle: Essays in Economy and Society (Contributions to Economics)
Contributors: Peter Meusburger (Editor); Heike Jöns (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
Published: September 6, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9783790814125
Subjects: Economics; European history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Social welfare & social services; Post-communism; Earth Sciences - Geography; Contemporary Economic Situations And Conditions; Social Situations And Conditions; Social conditions; Business & Economics; Archaeology / Anthropology; Politics/International Relations; Hungary; Economic Conditions; Anthropology - Cultural; Economics - General; Business & Economics / Economics / General; Central Europe; EU; Osteuropa; Sociology - General; 1989-
First sentence: At the end of the 1980s, the majority of experts and politicians expected that a transfer of capital, technology, institutions, and management practice from western countries would successfully transform the centrally planned economies of communist states into market economies in a relatively short period of time.