Political Economy of Poland's Transition New Firms and Reform Governments

Name: Political Economy of Poland's Transition New Firms and Reform Governments
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ISBN: 9780521838955

ISBN-10: 0521838959

ISBN-13: 9780521838955

Edition: 2005

Authors: John E. Jackson, Jacek Klich, Krystyna Poznanska, Randall Calvert, Thrainn Eggertsson

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In the time span of a two-term US presidency, Poland went from an authoritarian one-party state with a faltering centrally planned economy to become a relatively stable multiparty democracy and a market economy with one of the highest GDP growth rates in Europe. A central feature of these economic and political reforms is a high rate of entry of new, domestically owned firms. This book uses detailed economic and political data to examine how these new firms contributed to the Polish transition. The authors test propositions about why some regions have more new firms than others and how the success of these new firms contributed to political constituencies that supported economically liberal…

Book details

List price: $124.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/6/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English




Why Poland?



The dynamics of the Polish political economy



Creative destruction and economic transitions



The social and distributional costs of transition



Individual attitudes and voting



De Novo job creation and election returns



Liberal economic interests and seat allocations



The political economy after 1997



The political economy of transitions: why Poland?