Socioeconomic change and individual adaptation : comparing East and West / editors, Avi Gottlieb, Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar, Burkhard Strümpel.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Greenwich, Conn. : JAI Press, [1994], ©1994.
Description
xii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
  • Foreword / George Muskens and Peter Pawlowsky
  • Introduction: Economic Citizens, Economic Persons, and Economic Uncertainty / Avi Gottlieb
  • Individual Adaptation to a System in Transition: The Crisis of "Real Socialism" in Poland / Marek Ziolkowski
  • Adaptation to Socioeconomic Reforms in the Former Soviet Union / Vadim Radaev
  • Czechoslovakia: Facing the Economic Reform / Jadwiga Sanderova and Ales Kabatek
  • Structural, Economic, Political, and Social Change in Eastern Germany, and Shifts in Individual Value Systems / Toni Hahn and Irene Zierke
  • The Year After: Labor Market and Work Orientations After the Shift (Wende) / Michael Schlese, Peter Pawlowsky, Florian Schramm and Irene Zierke
  • The Paradox of Transformation: On Social Change in East Germany / Peter Pawlowsky, Michael Schlese and Florian Schramm
  • Socioeconomic Change in Israel: Policy, Rhetoric, and Public Opinion / Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar and Avi Gottlieb --
  • Sweden: Still the Model? / Axel van den Berg and Ryszard Szulkin
  • Economic Performance, Government Policies, and Public Opinion in Italy / Anthony C. Masi
  • West Germany: Changing Values, Rigid Labor Markets / Florian Schramm
  • Canadians: Looking Good, Feeling Bad / Joseph Smucker
  • British Economic Values in Mrs. Thatcher's Laboratory / Jonathan Gershuny
  • Concluding Essay: Varieties of "Real Capitalism" and the Dilemmas of Transformation in Eastern Europe / Avi Gottlieb and Marek Ziolkowski.
ISBN
1559389133
LCCN
94044280
OCLC
31606910
RCP
C - S
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