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Politics and Policies in Post-Communist Transition: Primary and Secondary Privatisation in Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union
ISBN: 9789639776913
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Central European University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Privatization -- Hungary; Privatization -- Europe Central; Privatization -- Russia (Federation); Post-communism;

Discusses the policies, practices and outcomes of privatization in six transition economies: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovenia and Ukraine, paying particular attention to cross-country differences and to interrelations between the processes of privatisation and the political transition from communism to a new system.The analysis is restricted to the privatisation in those fields where its methods have been strongly different from privatisations in advanced market economies and where differences of privatisation principles and techniques among our six countries were also rather various. This is basically the privatisation of middle-sized and large enterprises, not including banks, non-bank financial companies, natural monopolies and agricultural entities.

Károly Attila Soós is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pécs and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.