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Offering a retrospective view of how the system operated in
Communist Czechoslovakia, this book is an important voice in the
discussion about the systems of central planning. The unique
features of the book include in-depth research comprising both
archival records and analyses of around 75 interviews conducted
with period managers across a wide range of management levels. They
provided evidence of pervasive inefficiency resulting in appalling
economic outcomes. The book begins with a background to the
politico-sociological system in Czechoslovakia and proceeds to
describe the Marxist-Leninist ideological foundation of the regime,
which underpinned the formal setting of the Czechoslovak model.
These initial chapters set the context for the subsequent analysis
of the real functioning of the system. The book explores the
economic outcomes that must be understood as a natural consequence
of the ways in which this system operated. The author finishes by
answering the important question of why centrally planned economies
trailed behind the market economies. The book's unique use of the
interview research format brings a vivid, close-up view of the
everyday economic life in the centrally planned system. This will
be a valuable contribution to the discussion surrounding the
day-to-day reality of the system, which was found to be more
colourful than is generally deemed. The book will appeal to both
economic historians and students of economic history. A warning
against repeating past mistakes, this book will also be of interest
to those seeking a greater knowledge of the realities and
consequences of centrally planned economies.
Offering a retrospective view of how the system operated in
Communist Czechoslovakia, this book is an important voice in the
discussion about the systems of central planning. The unique
features of the book include in-depth research comprising both
archival records and analyses of around 75 interviews conducted
with period managers across a wide range of management levels. They
provided evidence of pervasive inefficiency resulting in appalling
economic outcomes. The book begins with a background to the
politico-sociological system in Czechoslovakia and proceeds to
describe the Marxist-Leninist ideological foundation of the regime,
which underpinned the formal setting of the Czechoslovak model.
These initial chapters set the context for the subsequent analysis
of the real functioning of the system. The book explores the
economic outcomes that must be understood as a natural consequence
of the ways in which this system operated. The author finishes by
answering the important question of why centrally planned economies
trailed behind the market economies. The book's unique use of the
interview research format brings a vivid, close-up view of the
everyday economic life in the centrally planned system. This will
be a valuable contribution to the discussion surrounding the
day-to-day reality of the system, which was found to be more
colourful than is generally deemed. The book will appeal to both
economic historians and students of economic history. A warning
against repeating past mistakes, this book will also be of interest
to those seeking a greater knowledge of the realities and
consequences of centrally planned economies.
This book describes the process of the Czech economic
transformation from the beginning of the 1990s to the country's
entry into the European Union in 2004. This transformation is
divided into four periods: an initial recession caused by the
transformation; economic growth in the mid-1990s; a recession
connected to the currency crisis of 1997; and recovery and growth
from 1999 until 2004, when the analysis ends. The examination
covers the main aspects of the transformation - an overall view of
the process, political transition, economic policy, economic
results (GDP development, inflation, unemployment), changes in
outside indicators (balance of payments), privatization,
transformation of the financial sector, and changes in the business
sector and institutional development. The book also compares Czech
development in this transformative era to those of Poland and
Hungary. As in Hungary and Poland, the Czech Republic underwent an
exceptional qualitative shift from a system centrally planned to
one that was market-based. The book concludes that despite mistakes
and hardships, the overall transformation process in Central Europe
has been successful.
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