Includes bibliographical references and index.

The comparison of economic systems / Morris Bornstein -- Comparing economic systems / Egon Neuberger -- The objectives and instruments of economic policy / Etienne S. Kirschen, Lucien Morissens -- Rewards in a market economy / Arthur M. Okun -- Economists' changing perceptions of government / Anne O. Kreuger -- Decision making via the price system / Bruno F. Frey -- Privatization : British style / Colin Harbury -- The Swedish model : relevant for other European countries? / Lei Delsen, Tom van Veen -- Indicative planning in France / Bernard Cazes.

(Cont.) Economic consequences of German unification / Gerhard Pohl -- The 1992 single market program of the European community / Anthony H. Wallace -- Japan's industrial groups, the Keiretsu / Dick K. Nanto -- The perceptions and the reality of Japanese industrial relations / Haruo Shimada -- Economic calculation in socialism / Ludwig von Mises -- On the economic theory of socialism / Oskar Lange -- The participatory economy / Jaroslav Vanek -- The Yugoslav firm / Stephen R. Sacks -- Self-managed market socialism and the Yugoslav economy, 1950-91 / John P. Burkett.

(Cont.) The traditional centrally planned economy and its reform / Alan A. Brown, Egon Neuberger -- The process of socialiast economic transformation / Stanley Fischer, Alan Gelb -- Agriculture and the transition to the market / Karen Brooks [and others] -- The Soviet centrally planned economy / Morris Bornstein -- Post-Soviet economic reforms in perspective / Gertrude E. Schroeder -- Privatization in Eastern Europe / Morris Bornstein -- Structural reform in Central and Eastern Europe / Richard Portes -- Transition to the market : theory and evidence / L�aszl�o Csaba.

(Cont.) Chinese economic reform experience / The World Bank -- Lessons from China's economic reform / Kang Chen, Gary H. Jefferson, Inderjit Singh -- Unemployment in capitalist regulated market economies and socialist centrally planned economies / Morris Bornstein -- The underground economy in the West and East : a comparative approach / Bruno Dallago.

Comprises essays grouped under four main headings: comparing economic systems; capitalist market economies; socialist market economies; and socialist planned economies and their reform.

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