Economic Transformation East E (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521433297)

Who gains and who loses from economic transformation in Eastern Europe is a key question--but one that is too rarely discussed. To understand the implications of the move to a market economy, it is necessary to know more about the distribution of income under Communism. This book assembles evidence about earnings, dispersion, income inequality and poverty in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, the USSR (with separate information for Russia, the Ukraine and other republics). It adopts a comparative perspective--bringing out the differences between these countries and the West, as well as within Central and Eastern Europe. It shows that widely held beliefs about Eastern Europe under Communism are not borne out by the evidence.

Author: A. B. Atkinson,Anthony Barnes Atkinson,John Micklewright
ISBN-10: 0521433290
ISBN-13: 9780521433297
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/30/1992
Pages: 468
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.88lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19d