Journal of Economic Perspectives

Vol. 5 No. 4 Fall 1991

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Front Matter

(pp. 1-2)

Symposium: Economic Transition in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

Symposium on Economic Transition in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

Peter Murrell

(pp. 3-9)

The Classical Soviet-Type Economy: Nature of the System and Implications for Reform

Richard E. Ericson

(pp. 11-27)

The USSR before the Fall: How Poor and Why

Abram Bergson

(pp. 29-44)

The Lessons of Limited Market-Oriented Reform

Thomas A. Wolf

(pp. 45-58)

Can Neoclassical Economics Underpin the Reform of Centrally Planned Economies?

Peter Murrell

(pp. 59-76)

Legality and Market Reform in Soviet-Type Economies

John M. Litwack

(pp. 77-89)

The Process of Socialist Economic Transformation

Stanley Fischer and Alan Gelb

(pp. 91-105)

Financial Control in the Transition from Classical Socialism to a Market Economy

Ronald I. McKinnon

(pp. 107-122)

Microeconomic Issues in the Transition to a Market Economy

Jan Svejnar

(pp. 123-138)

Credit Markets, Credibility, and Economic Transformation

Guillermo A. Calvo and Jacob A. Frenkel

(pp. 139-148)

Agriculture and the Transition to the Market

Karen Brooks, J. Luis Guasch, Avishay Braverman and Csaba Csaki

(pp. 149-161)

Country Studies of Eastern Europe

The Introduction of Markets in a Hypercentralized Economy: The Case of Romania

Avner Ben-Ner and J. Michael Montias

(pp. 163-170)

The Economic Transition of Czechoslovakia from Plan to Market

Josef C. Brada

(pp. 171-177)

On the First Year of German Monetary, Economic and Social Union

Irwin L. Collier

(pp. 179-186)

Yugoslavia: The Case of Self-Managing Market Socialism

Saul Estrin

(pp. 187-194)

Hungary: In Transition to a Market Economy

Paul G. Hare

(pp. 195-201)

The Rise and Decay of the Socialist Economy in Bulgaria

Marvin Jackson

(pp. 203-209)

Poland under "Solidarity" Rule

Stanislaw Wellisz

(pp. 211-217)

Features

Policy Watch: U.S. Economic Policy toward the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

Susan M. Collins

(pp. 219-227)

Retrospectives: Lange and von Mises, Large-Scale Enterprises, and the Economic Case for Socialism

Joseph Persky

(pp. 229-236)

Recommendations for Further Reading

Bernard Saffran

(pp. 237-243)

Correspondence

Philip Musgrove

(pp. 245-246)

Notes

(pp. 247-253)