TY - BOOK AU - Aslund,Anders TI - How capitalism was built: the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia SN - 9781107026544 AV - HC336.27 .A8395 2013 U1 - 330.9470009 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Post-communism KW - Former Soviet republics KW - Europe, Eastern KW - Capitalism KW - Economic conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: Introduction: a world transformed; 1. Communism and its demise; 2. Radical reform versus gradualism; 3. Output: from slump to recovery and boom; 4. Liberalization: the creation of a market economy; 5. From hyperinflation to financial stability; 6. Privatization: the establishment of private property rights; 7. The social system; 8. The politics of transition; 9. From crime toward law; 10. The importance of the European Union; 11. The global financial crisis, 2007-2012; Conclusions: a world transformed N2 - "Anders ©®Aslund is known for making bold predictions, which initially arouse controversy but become common wisdom a few years later. He foresaw the collapse of the Soviet Union in his book Gorbachev's Struggle for Economic Reform (1989). He depicted the success of Russia's market transformation in How Russia Became a Market Economy (1995), when others saw little but chaos. After Russia's financial crisis of 1998, ijlund insisted that Russia had no choice but to adjust to the world market (Building Capitalism, 2002), although most observers declared the market economic experiment a failure. - Why did not Russia choose Chinese gradual reforms? - Why are the former Soviet countries growing much faster than the Central European economies? - How did the oligarchs arise? - Where are the postcommunist countries heading? These are just some of the questions answered in his new book How Capitalism Was Built which tells the story how all but three of twenty-one former communist countries were transformed into market economies from 1989 to 2011, but less than half of them became democracies. Anybody who wants to understand the often confusing dramas unfolding in the region and to obtain an early insight into the future will find this book useful and intellectually stimulating"-- UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012017764-b.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012017764-d.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012017764-t.html ER -