Privatization and Entrepreneurship in Post-Socialist Countries

Analyzes the processes of privatization and entrepreneurial formation by countries and subjects, and points out the different features they acquire in various post-socialist countries through an interdisciplinary and historico-comparative approach.

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Part 1 The autonomous sector - entrepreneurship and transition: the autonomous sector in a society of shortage, Horst Brezinski; perestroika - the autonomous sector and the transition from the "contra-system" to a civil society?, Robert Sharlet; property relations in the period of transition, Marton Tardos; issues in state and private sector relations in the Soviet economy, Anthony Jones; organizational innovation and entrepreneurial formation, Bruno Grancelli; from underground to legitimacy, Maria Los; seeking legal forms for the autonomous sector, Victor P. Mozolin. Part 2 Economic, legal and social problems of ownership transformation: the reality and potential of autonomous entrepreneurship, Terez Laky; transformation of a centrally-directed economy, Paul Marer; the role of law in autonomization of the USSR economy, John Hazard; new economic forms, Soviet labour law and the trade unions, Ger Van den Berg; the entrepreneurial spirit and Soviet medicine, David Powell. Part 3 The co-operative movements in the Soviet Union: the role of the new co-operatives in the Soviet economy, Domenico M. Nuti; Soviet co-operatives and the labour market, Silvana Malle; entrepreneurship - some legal and social problems, Louise Shelley; the role of the non-socialized sector in Perestroika, Svetlana Glinkina; on the efficiency of Soviet co-operatives - a critical appraisal, Ruud Knaak.