Economic reforms and welfare systems in the USSR, Poland, and Hungary: Social contract in transformation
Description
The author discusses the traditional system of management of the economy as it existed in the early 1950s in the USSR and goes on to deal with the reforms of the 1960s and of the 1980s, country by country. He shows that the focus of the reforms is on finding a proper combination of planning and the market mechanism, and their success will be judged by their ability to solve acute economic problems.
Keywords
Economic policyCongressesPublic welfarePublic welfare, soviet unionSoviet union, economic policyPublic welfare, europePoland, economic policyHungary, economic conditionsEurope, eastern, politics and government
