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

Adam Przeworski (Author)

9780521423359, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 26 July 1991

228 pages, 8 b/w illus. 2 tables
21.6 x 13.6 x 1.7 cm, 0.296 kg

"The books offers interesting and intellectually challenging reading. It can be proposed to a wide academic audience including scholars of comparative politics and economics, students and analysts....The vivid and, I dare say, charming style of writing, with many brilliantly inserted short anecdotes, contributes to the high quality of reading." Adam Török, Slavic Review

The quest for freedom from hunger and repression has triggered in recent years a dramatic, worldwide reform of political and economic systems. Never have so many people enjoyed, or at least experimented with democratic institutions. However, many strategies for economic development in Eastern Europe and Latin America have failed with the result that entire economic systems on both continents are being transformed. This major book analyzes recent transitions to democracy and market-oriented economic reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Drawing in a quite distinctive way on models derived from political philosophy, economics, and game theory, Professor Przeworski also considers specific data on individual countries. Among the questions raised by the book are: What should we expect from these experiments in democracy and market economy? What new economic systems will emerge? Will these transitions result in new democracies or old dictatorships?

Introduction
A prologue: the fall of communism
1. Democracy
2. Transitions to democracy
3. Capitalism and socialism
4. The political dynamics of economic reform
References
Author index
Subject index.

Subject Areas: Economic theory & philosophy [KCA], Social & political philosophy [HPS]