International Political Economy and Socialism

This book, first published in 1991, is a revised and updated version of Professor Marie Lavigne's best seller Economie Internationale des Pays Socialistes.

Marie Lavigne (Author), David Lambert (Translated by)

9780521334273, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 14 March 1991

410 pages, 2 b/w illus. 27 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.77 kg

"She offers valuable insights about these [Russia and Eastern European] countries' complex sets of institutions, attitudes, and mechanisms and points out how important it is to understand their functioning in the period of transition from centrally planned to market economies. For these reasons, the book should be of interest to persons specializing in Soviet affairs, East and Central European studies, international and comparative economics, and international political economy." Perspectives on Political Science

International Political Economy and Socialism, first published in 1991, is a revised and updated version of Professor Marie Lavigne's best seller Economie Internationale des Pays Socialistes. It is a useful revision in which she presents a comprehensive view of the strategies and achievements in the international trade of the Soviet Union, the GDR, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Romania. Marie Lavigne divides the book into three parts. In the first, she examines trading relations within the CMEA and with their partners in the South and the West. Part two focuses on the main categories of products which dominate these trading relationships - technology, energy and food. In the final section, Professor Lavigne analyses the management of international financial relations by countries which lack domestic monetary markets. She concludes by raising questions concerning the place these socialist economies occupy in the world economy and the place they may occupy in the future.

Preface
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Autarky, opening up and external constraint
Part I. Polarisations and Policies: 2. The three-way polarisations of international economic relations
3. Cooperation: specialisation, countertrade, assistance
4. Trade mechanisms and policies: from state trading to market
Part II. Commodities and Strategies: 5. Technologies
6. Energy
7. Agriculture
Part III. Finance and Risk: 8. From clearing to the dollar
9. Debt and reschedulings
Conclusion
Appendix
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Macroeconomics [KCB]