Democracy and the Market Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America

Name: Democracy and the Market Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America
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ISBN: 9780521423359

ISBN-10: 052142335X

ISBN-13: 9780521423359

Edition: 1991

Authors: Adam Przeworski, Jon. Elster, Gudmund Hernes

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The quest for freedom from hunger and repression has triggered in recent years a worldwide movement toward political democracy and economic rationality. Never have so many people experimented with democratic institutions. At the same time, traditional strategies of economic development have collapsed in Eastern Europe and Latin America and entire economic systems are being transformed on both continents. What should we expect in the countries that venture on the paths to democracy and markets? Will these transitions result in democracies or in new dictatorships? What economic system, new or old, will emerge? This major book analyzes recent events in Eastern Europe and Latin America,…

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List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/26/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 5.35" wide x 8.50" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Jon Elster is Professor of Rationalitï¿½ et sciences sociales at College de France, and Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Sciences at Columbia University. He is author of Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective .



Introduction


A prologue: the fall of communism



Democracy



Transitions to democracy



Capitalism and socialism



The political dynamics of economic reform


References


Author index


Subject index