دانلود کتاب From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union: The Economic and Social Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe since 1973

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Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Figures......Page 9
Tables......Page 11
Boxes......Page 13
Preface......Page 15
Introduction......Page 19
CHAPTER 1 The economic factors in the collapse of state socialism and the new international environment, 1973-1989......Page 24
Economic crisis, slowdown, and technological transformation in the West and lack of adjustment and decline in the East after 1973......Page 25
The absence of opportunities for technology transfer......Page 45
The new international environment: end of the Cold War and the "new world order"......Page 56
The "Washington consensus"......Page 60
Deregulation and macroeconomic stabilization......Page 68
Marketization......Page 71
Privatization......Page 75
Policy mistakes and decline......Page 83
CHAPTER 3 Toward better times: the European Union and its policy of eastward enlargement......Page 97
The European Union's interest in enlargement and integration......Page 99
The acquis communautaire and membership in the Union......Page 106
The European Union's impact on the transformation of future candidate countries......Page 120
The European Union of twenty-seven countries......Page 123
CHAPTER 4 Recuperation and growth: the role of foreign direct investment......Page 125
Capital inflow and foreign direct investment......Page 126
Complementary specialization within the international production network......Page 142
Restructuring the economy: infrastructure and services, the most dynamic sectors......Page 152
Agriculture......Page 162
Industrial restructuring......Page 171
Restructured foreign trade......Page 182
Economic recovery and growth......Page 186
Economic weaknesses......Page 191
Longing for Western life and starting to adopt it......Page 195
The social pain of transformation......Page 200
Societies in shock......Page 213
Living standards, unemployment, and poverty......Page 223
A withering welfare state......Page 231
Changing demographic trends......Page 239
Educational changes......Page 244
Structural changes in society......Page 249
Settlement structure: unchanged urbanization level, but changing cities......Page 264
CHAPTER 8 Epilogue: the future of catching up in the European "melting pot"......Page 273
Bibliography......Page 285
Index......Page 306