Anders Aslund, a leading specialist on the Soviet Union and its satellites, gave a talk last fall about the massive changes in Russia and the new post-communist countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia in the 1990s after the collapse of communism. His conclusions were incontrovertible--and...
As a contribution the Dialogue section of Development critiques of mainstream economics John Marangos looks at how shock therapies applied to transition economies in Central, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union were economic experiments that went disastrously wrong. They produced suffering, low gr...
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The Cold War era CIA method was to either assassinate leaders the United States did not like because of the former's ties to the Soviet Union, or else send shock troops (local Islamists) to create instability. Manufacturing dissent "The idea of shock troops wearing enemy uniforms, as they ...
Kolodko, From Shock to Therapy, The Political Economy of Postsocialist Transformation Información del artículo "Gender Mainstreaming in the European Employment Strategy": expert seminar of the European Trade Union Institute and the Institu... M Lavigne - Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest 被引...
Remarkably, all previously communist Eastern European and Soviet Union countries have experienced a lasting recession followed by a recovery. Some countries such as Romania, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic clearly display a double dip (Figs 1 and 2). As it happens, the onsets of the second dips...
This chapter traces the introduction of electroshock therapy and lobotomy. At the Third International Neurological Congress in Copenhagen in 1939, electroshock was presented by Ugo Cerletti. At the same congress, Walter Freeman gave a talk about his early studies on lobotomy. After the introduction...
Google Scholar Brabant van, J., 1991, “Convertibility in Eastern Europe through a Payments Union,” in: J. WilliamsonCurrency Convertibility in Eastern EuropeWashington: Institute for International Economics. Google Scholar Brada, J., 1992, “Political Economy of Eastern European Soviet Trade: Rethin...
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Thus, while this paper is concerned with the problems of conversion in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, its point of entry is via the rhetorical strategies employed by economists concerned with such issues. Hence the title.doi:10.1007/978-94-009-1730-9_5Paul Redfern...