Economic Transition in Eastern Europe and Russia
Economic Transition in Eastern Europe and Russia

Economic Transition in Eastern Europe and Russia

Realities of Reform

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

448 Pages, 6 x 9

Formats: Paperback

Paperback, $12.48 (US $12.48) (CA $13.95)

Publication Date: March 1995

ISBN 9780817993320

Price: $12.48
 
 

Overview

Thirteen essays by acknowledged economic experts explore the rapid changes in the transition economies of Eastern Europe, with discussions on political and economic freedom, monetary control and privatization, labor markets and social safety nets, and taxation and crime.

Author Biography

Edward P. Lazear, Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, was named to President Bush's new advisory Tax Reform Panel. Lazear will work with nine other panel members to look into revenue-neutral policy options for reforming the Federal Internal Revenue Code. Lazear is also the Jack Steele Parker Professor of Human Resources, Management and Economics (1995) at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, where he has taught since 1992. He taught previously at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business, where he was the Brown Professor of Urban and Labor Economics.