From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union
| Titel: | From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union : the economic and social transformation of Central and Eastern Europe since 1973 / Ivan T. Berend |
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Veröffentlicht: | Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009 |
| Umfang: | XV, 299 S. : graph. Darst. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9780521729505 ; 9780521493659 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- List of figures
- p. vii
- List of tables
- p. ix
- List of boxes
- p. xi
- Preface
- p. xiii
- Introduction
- p. 1
- 1
- The economic factors in the collapse of state socialism and the new international environment, 1973-1989
- p. 6
- Economic crisis, slowdown, and technological transformation in the West and lack of adjustment and decline in the East after 1973
- p. 7
- The absence of opportunities for technology transfer
- p. 27
- The new international environment: end of the Cold War and the "new world order"
- p. 38
- The "Washington consensus"
- p. 42
- 2
- Radical transformation and policy mistakes: dramatic economic decline in the early 1990s
- p. 50
- Deregulation and macroeconomic stabilization
- p. 50
- Marketization
- p. 53
- Privatization
- p. 57
- Policy mistakes and decline
- p. 65
- 3
- Toward better times: the European Union and its policy of eastward enlargement
- p. 79
- The European Union's interest in enlargement and integration
- p. 81
- The acquis communautaire and membership in the Union
- p. 88
- The European Union's impact on the transformation of future candidate countries
- p. 102
- The European Union of twenty-seven countries
- p. 105
- 4
- Recuperation and growth: the role of foreign direct investment
- p. 107
- Capital inflow and foreign direct investment
- p. 108
- Complementary specialization within the international production network
- p. 124
- 5
- Economic restructuring: transforming main sectors, economic recovery, growth, and weaknesses
- p. 134
- Restructuring the economy: infrastructure and services, the most dynamic sectors
- p. 134
- Agriculture
- p. 144
- Industrial restructuring
- p. 153
- Restructured foreign trade
- p. 164
- Economic recovery and growth
- p. 168
- Economic weaknesses
- p. 173
- 6
- Transformation and social shock
- p. 177
- Longing for Western life and starting to adopt it
- p. 177
- The social pain of transformation
- p. 182
- Societies in shock
- p. 195
- 7
- Lasting changes in the structure of income, employment, welfare institutions, education, and settlement
- p. 205
- Living standards, unemployment, and poverty
- p. 205
- A withering welfare state
- p. 213
- Changing demographic trends
- p. 221
- Educational changes
- p. 226
- Structural changes in society
- p. 231
- Settlement structure: unchanged urbanization level, but changing cities
- p. 246
- 8
- Epilogue: the future of catching up in the European "melting pot"
- p. 255
- Bibliography
- p. 267
- Index
- p. 288
