Transition and Beyond

1. Introduction
Saul Estrin, Grzegorz W. Kolodko, Milica Uvalic

Part I. The Socialist Legacy

2. The Rise and Fall of Socialist Planning
Michael Ellman

3. Life Cycle of the Centrally Planned Economy: Why Soviet Growth Rates Peaked in the 1950s
Vladimir Popov

4. Are Transition Economies Normal Developing Countries? The Burden of the Socialist Past
Michael Keren, Gur Ofer

Part II. Transition: From Socialism to Capitalism

5. Growth, Initial Conditions, Law and Speed of Privatization in Transition Countries: 11 Years Later
Sergio Godoy, Joseph E. Stiglitz

6. Skills and the Transition
Simon Commander

7. Financial Transition in Central and Eastern Europe. A Note
Marcello Cecco

8. Investment, Wages and Corporate Governance during the Transition: Evidence from Slovenian Firms
Janez Prašnikar, Jan Svejnar

9. How Different Is Serbia?
Milica Uvalic

10. The Search for Identity: Where Is Russia Heading?
Padma Desai

11. The Effects of Privatization on Company Performance in Belarus
Saul Estrin, Marina Bakanova, Igor Pelipas, Sergei Pukovich

Part III. Beyond Transition

12. Complexity and Systemic Failure
Vito Tanzi

13. Risk Management and Systemic Risk
John Eatwell

14. Optimal Transition Trajectories?
László Csaba

15. The Great Post-Communist Change and Uncertain Future of the World
Grzegorz W. Kolodko

Keywords: Economics, International Economics, Regional/Spatial Science, Economic Systems, Development Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics