The Czechoslovak Economy 1948–1988
The Battle for Economic Reform

Dr Myant presents a detailed account of the development and performance of the Czech economy.

Martin Myant (Author)

9780521143769, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 24 June 2010

336 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.5 kg

This book was published in 1989 and was written in the context of a strong impetus for internal reform in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. As Dr Myant shows, economic and political developments have been as entwined in Czechoslovakia as elsewhere in the COMECON network. He presents a detailed account of the development and performance of the Czech economy over a period of forty years, and reveals the problems and tensions created by the chosen system of centralised planning. The study shows clearly that economic change can only be understood in a broader international and political context, and highlights certain crucial formative periods, most notably the early the early 1950s, the early 1960s and, of course, 1968. Dr Myant's conclusion is that any economic reform will have little substance unless accompanied by appropriate political change.

List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The end of the Czechoslovak road
2. Towards the Soviet system of management
3. A new course without a new strategy
4. From confidence to crisis
5. Towards economic reform
6. The reform falters
7. 1968
8. Intensification or stagnation?
9. Relative decline
10. The politics of 'restructuring'
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Macroeconomics [KCB]