The East European Economies in the 1970s

Butterworths Studies in International Political Economy

Alec Nove, Hans-Hermann Höhmann, Gertraud Seidenstecher

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780408107624
• eBook ISBN: 9781483163444
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Economics

The East European Economies in the 1970s reviews the development of economic policy in Eastern Europe in the 1970s. This book includes individual country studies that compare and contrast both the aims of economic development and the results of the growth process, as well as the instruments employed in economic policy. More specifically, this book examines what has happened during the past decade after the fundamental changes in economic policy that occurred in the 1960s. This text is comprised of 10 chapters; the first of which provides a background on economic reform in Eastern Europe during the 1970s. Attention then turns to the economic policy, methods, and performance of the USSR after 1970. The chapters that follow focus on the German Democratic Republic, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and Yugoslavia. This book concludes with a discussion on the economic system of Albania in the 1970s, focusing on the country's conservative radicalism, agriculture, and sharp disputes on economic policy between 1974 and 1976. Throughout the book, the emphasis is on how the ""process of reconstruction within the system"" has led to increasing differentiation of aims, institutions, and instruments of economic policy between individual countries. This book will be of interest to political science students, political scientists, political economists, and policy analysts.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• The East European Economies in the 1970s
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Contributors
• CHAPTER 1. Economic reform in the 1970s —policy with no alternative
• CHAPTER 2. USSR: economic policy and methods after 1970
• CHAPTER 3. The GDR–economic policy caught between pressure for efficiency and lack of ideas
• CHAPTER 4. Aims, methods and political determinants of the economic policy of Poland 1970–1980
• CHAPTER 5. Aims and methods of economic policy in Czechoslovakia 1970–1978
• CHAPTER 6. Problems and trends in the development of the Hungarian new economic mechanism: a balance sheet of the 1970s
• CHAPTER 7. Economic development and planning in Bulgaria in the 1970s
• CHAPTER 8. Economic reform in Romania in the1970s
• CHAPTER 9. Objectives and methods of economic policies in Yugoslavia, 1970–1980
• CHAPTER 10. The economic system of Albania in the1970s: developments and problems
• Index