Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and Transition Evidence from East Germany and Poland
This open access book examines how different economic systems impacted the development of East Germany and Poland. Through comparing these countries while they were centrally planned socialist economies with the periods when they transitioned to capitalism, the inability of socialist economies to mo...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer Nature Switzerland
2024.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2024. |
| Colección: | Studies in Economic Transition,
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009769012206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. From East to West: Modernization efforts in the northern and western regions of Poland (1944-1989)
- 3. The importance of technical progress for economic growth in the GDR
- 4. Inefficiency and intransparency in East German foreign trade
- 5. Historical Legacies of Regional Innovation Activity
- 6. Catching-up modernization: Synthetic fibre in the GDR and Poland
- 7. The re-allocation of entrepreneurial talent over the course of radical institutional change – an institutional perspective
- 8. When backwardness became an advantage: Stays abroad as birth assist in Polish transformation
- 9. Transfer of knowledge from the outside or self-learning? Key success criteria for setting-up enterprises in East Germany and Poland after 1989
- 10. GDR’s researchers catching up on their inclusion in international scientific communities
- 11. After 1989: Socialist elites and post-socialist transformations.
