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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Transforming The Post-Socialist Economies: Patterns and Paradoxes -- Fall in production/growth in production -- Catching up and falling behind -- Poverty and prosperity -- Strengthening the state and strengthening the market -- Debureaucratisation and institution building -- Distrust and trust -- Cultural congruence and cultural confrontion -- Forgetting and learning -- Polarisation and equalisation -- Peripheralisation and integration -- Fragmentation and integration -- Exclusion and integration -- Cross-border Trade/Kaliningrad -- Energy -- Investment -- VADE MECUM -- REFERENCES -- Part II The Political Economy of Transition -- 2 Nomenklatura Nationalism - The Key to an Understanding of the New East European Politics? -- From Apparatchik to Nomenklatura Nationalist: The Evolution of a Ruling Group -- A Provisional Anatomy of Nomenklatura Nationalism -- The Problem of Generalisation -- Conclusion: Does It Hold? Does It Matter? -- REFERENCES -- 3 The Structural Origins of the Russian Economic Crisis -- INTRODUCTION -- STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN PRODUCTION -- Agriculture -- Industry -- STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM -- THE BANKING SYSTEM -- THE STRUCTURAL IMPACT OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT -- STRUCTURAL SCLEROSIS: A CHRONIC AND TERMINAL DISEASE? -- External Factors: The Role of Western Trade Policy -- Internal Factors: Insiders and Inaction -- Internal Factors: Fraud and Looting -- CONCLUSIONS -- POSTSCRIPT -- REFERENCES -- Part III Transition and the Global Economy -- 4 Technology and Structure in the Polish Economy Under Transition and Globalisation -- INTRODUCTION -- CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- The Basic Model -- The Cross-sectoral Approach to Asset Absorption and Asset Creation: Two Taxonomies -- DATA SOURCES AND METHODOLOGY -- TECHNOLOGY AND TRADE |
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The Factor Proportions Axis -- The Technology Sourcing Axis -- TECHNOLOGY PATTERNS IN FDI -- Factor Mix in Sectors Targeted for FDI -- Technology Clusters in Sectors Targeted for FDI -- CASE STUDIES -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 5 Trade Policy for the Countries of the Former Soviet Union (FSU): What Can the Advanced Industrial Countries Do to Help? -- INTRODUCTION -- Essential Factors of Trade in the Region of the FSU -- The Historical Background -- KEY POLICY ISSUES -- The Impact of EU Enlargement -- The Changing Profile of the Eurasian Trade Pattern -- Influence of the Soviet Political Legacy on Trade Policy -- JOINING THE CLUB: THE CIS COUNTRIES AND THE MULTILATERAL TRADE INSTITUTIONS -- WTO Membership -- The Energy Charter -- EU Co-operation -- CONCLUSIONS -- Guarantees Against Contingent Protection -- International Agreement on Investment -- Part IV The East European Countries and the European Union -- 6 The Dynamic Impact on the Central-East European Economies of Accession to the European Union: Social Capability and Technology Absorption -- INTRODUCTION: THE RETURNS TO ECONOMIC INTEGRATION -- ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND EASTWARDS ENLARGEMENT: AN OVERVIEW -- Trade Effects -- Scale and Competition Effects -- Growth Effects -- R&D SYSTEMS -- BANKING SYSTEMS -- THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION -- Business Alliances -- Foreign Direct Investment -- Supply Networks -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 7 "East"-"West" Networks and their Alignment: Industrial Networks in Hungary and Slovenia -- INTRODUCTION -- Industrial Networks in the Context of Economic Transition -- Transition, Transformation and Network Realignment -- MARKETS AND NETWORKS: CONTRACTS, TRUST AND THE MEANING OF CLOSE COOPERATION -- Trust and Contracts -- The Relationship Between Closeness of Cooperation and Depth of Cooperation |
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SUPPLY HIERARCHIES AND NETWORK ALIGNMENTS -- The Relationship Between Closeness of Cooperation and Position in the Hierarchy of Supply -- Patterns of Supply Hierarchy, Levels of Economic Development and Ownership Patterns -- How Important is it to be a First-tier Supplier? -- Networking and Outward Processing -- Cooperation with Buyers as a Springboard for Upgrading and Innovation -- Cooperation with Buyers as a Vehicle of Market Research/ Information Networking -- INDUSTRIAL NETWORKS AND THE TRANSITION STATE -- IMPLICATIONS FOR EU ACCESSION -- An Overview -- Foreign Investment -- Trust -- Closeness of Cooperation -- Attaining the Status of First-tier Supplier -- Accession and Outward Processing -- Climbing the Technological Ladder -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Part V Technology and Transition -- 8 Key Actors in the Process of Innovation and Technology Transfer in the Context of Economic Transition -- INTRODUCTION -- THE LEGACY -- THE NEW INSTITUTIONAL AGENDA -- ELEMENTS OF AN INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER SYSTEM -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 9 Technology Exchange and the Foreign Business Sector in Russia -- INTRODUCTION -- FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN GLOBAL CONTEXT -- Process and Product Technology - "Hard" Technology -- Management, Organisational and Office Technology - "Soft" Technology -- Locational Factors in FDI Decisions -- FDI IN THE TRANSITION REGION -- STRATEGIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL ALLIANCES IN THE TRANSITION REGION -- THE PATTERN OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND ALLIANCES IN RUSSIA -- THE PATTERN OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER THROUGH FDI AND ALLIANCES IN RUSSIA -- PROBLEMS OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER THROUGH FDI AND ALLIANCES -- From the Russian Point of View -- From the Western Point of View -- CASE STUDIES -- The Oil and Gas Industries -- The Space and Aerospace Industries -- SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES |
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10 Building the Knowledge-Based Economy in Countries in Transition: From Concepts to Policies -- INTRODUCTION -- Knowledge and Learning and the Transition Context -- The General Policy Framework in the Transition Countries -- THE IMPACT OF EXISTING POLICIES ON THE KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY IN THE TRANSITION COUNTRIES -- R&D Policy -- "Shock without Therapy" -- "Shock with Therapy" -- "Gradualism with Some Therapy" -- "Gradualism without Therapy" -- "Shock and Gradualism without Therapy" -- The Impact of Privatisation Policies -- Labour-related Measures, Education and Training Policies -- Investment Policy -- Monopoly and Competition Policy -- Policy on Foreign Direct Investment -- Regional Policy -- Tax Policy -- PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPING POLICIES TO ENHANCE THE KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY IN THE POST-SOCIALIST COUNTRIES -- The Conceptual Framework - Key Elements -- Market Regulation -- Technological Infrastructure -- Market Regulation and Technology Infrastructure - A Synthesis -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Part VI Patterns and Prospects -- 11 Economic Performance in the Transition Economies: A Comparative Perspective -- INTRODUCTION: CONTRASTS AND COMMON FEATURES IN GENERAL PATTERNS OF ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE -- UNDERLYING PATTERNS OF TRANSFORMATION - MACRO STABILITY AND INCREASES IN EFFICIENCY -- SOURCES OF PRODUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT IN CONDITIONS OF TRANSITION -- EXPLAINING THE TRANSITION PECKING ORDER: A MORE GENERAL APPROACH -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 12 Building Social Capability for Economic Catch-Up: The Experience and Prospects of the Post-Socialist Countries -- ECONOMIC GROWTH IN CONDITIONS OF TRANSFORMATION: THE RECORD TO DATE -- CATCHING UP: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK -- THE KEY ROLE OF S&T IN THE CATCH-UP PROCESS -- TECHNOLOGICAL CONGRUENCE AND SOCIAL CAPABILITY IN THE CONTEXT OF ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION |
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THE IMPLICATIONS FOR CATCH-UP IN PRACTICE -- THE PROBLEM OF VARIANCE AMONG THE POST-SOCIALIST COUNTRIES -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Part VII By Way of Conclusion -- 13 What Transition Has Learned from Economics - and What Economics Has Learned from Transition -- INTRODUCTION -- "SHOCK THERAPY" IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- PRIVATISATION AND THE REVOLUTION IN PROPERTY RIGHTS -- CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, MANAGEMENT AND TECHNICAL CHANGE -- FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT, EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER -- REGULATION AND INSTITUTION-BUILDING -- SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS -- What Transition Has Learned from Economics -- What Economics Has Learned from Transition -- REFERENCES -- Index |
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In this collection of essays David A Dyker explores some of the mostdifficult and fascinating aspects of the process of transition fromautocratic "real socialism" to a capitalism that is sometimesdemocratic, sometimes authoritarian. The stress is on the economicdimension of transformation, but the author sets the economic dramafirmly within a political economy framework and a historicalperspective. Trends in key economic variables are analysed against thebackground of the struggle between different social and politicalgroups for power and command over resources. While the book pays dueattention to topical issues like EU enlargement, the underlyingperspective is a long-term one. Transition is viewed not as a set ofonce-and-for-all institutional changes or a process of short-termstabilisation, but as a historic opportunity to solve the inheritedproblem of poverty and underdevelopment in Central-East Europe and theformer Soviet Union. The book ends with a critical assessment of howeconomics, as a discipline, has coped with the challenge of thathistoric opportunity |
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries |
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Print version: Dyker, David A Catching Up And Falling Behind: Post-communist Transformation In Historical Perspective
Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company,c2004 9781860944345
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Economics -- Europe.;Europe, Eastern -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
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