Comparative Economic Studies articles from June 2000

Comparative Economic Studies archives from June 2000

Introduction: Teaching Modern Economics in Transition Economies.
June 22, 2000... The collapse of the socialist command economies at the end of the 1980s and the emergence of market arrangements in varying country settings has been an economic event of major and continuing importance. Indeed, in many countries, the...

Modern Economics Education in TEs: Technology Transfer to Russia.(transition economies)(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2000... I. Introduction In 1948 a young and recent Chicago Ph.D. in economics by the name of Don Patinkin immigrated to Israel and accepted a position as a professor of economics in the faculty of social sciences at the Hebrew University. At the...

Economics Ph.D. Education in Central and Eastern Europe.
June 22, 2000... Prepared for ACES Panel on "Graduate Economics Education in Transition Economies, " ASSA Meetings, Boston, January 2000. 1. Background Most Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries started in 1989 from a centralized system of...

The Teaching of Modern Economics in China.
June 22, 2000... 1. Introduction China opened its door twenty years ago in 1979 when only Marxian and socialist economics was taught at its universities. In the last two decades much progress has been made in reforming its economic institutions towards a...

Discussion.
June 22, 2000... Our authors are to be congratulated on three informative and exciting reports. Though, as befits our organization I want to note some comparative aspects, I will take the paper on the FSU as my point of departure. I find its general...

State of the Art in Economics Education and Research in Transition Economies.
June 22, 2000... OVERVIEW As the economies of East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union moved from state planning to markets, there were few economists with training in the fundamental concepts of market dynamics who could advise on this massive...

Without a Map -- Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman, Without a Map -- Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000. ix + 223 pp., index, hb, $25.95. The focus of this book is on the political economy of three aspects...

Money Unmade: Barter and the Fate of Russian Capitalism.(Review)
June 22, 2000... David Woodruff, Money Unmade: Barter and the Fate of Russian Capitalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999, 228 pp. This is a careful narrative of Russian experiences with implementing monetary control during reform efforts in the...