Books Details
Author : Jozef M. Van Brabant Pages : 360 pages Publisher : Springer
Language : ISBN-10 : 0792325389 ISBN-13 : 9780792325383
Books Descriptions
This volume in essence continues my recent contributions towards building
up a better understanding of the wide range of obstacles besetting the
transitions away from administrative planning in the former communist
regimes in the eastern part of Europe. It is self-contained, however. As
such, it specifically addresses issues revolving around how best to govern
economies, and indeed societies more generally, that are undergoing
fundamental structural transfor mation, and whether industrial policy can
facilitate progressing with the vexing transformations that will have to be
enacted over a protracted period of time. Because of the bewildering
variety of hindrances that the managers of the transition have been
confronted with, many of which were not even contem plated when the
programs were first designed, regaining a measure of good governance,
including notably good economic governance, is critical in formu lating a
positive pOlitical economy of transition. Arguably most critical is
