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Author Schwartz, Andrew, 1957-2004.

Title The politics of greed : how privatization structured politics in Central and Eastern Europe / Andrew Harrison Schwartz ; prologue by John Zysman ; foreword by David Ellerman ; with the assistance of Jordan Gans-Morse.

Imprint Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  338.94705 Sch95p 2006    ---  Available
Description xxii, 357 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series World social change
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-339) and index.
Contents Neoliberal privatization : the dream that if you create private owners, democracy and the market economy will follow -- Institutional policy design, politics, and the creation of capitalism -- Ownership regimes : the basic model of how they form -- The two trajectories of ownership regime evolution -- Czech privatization as the illustrative case of the ownership model of political economy -- Elite approval, November 1989 to May 1990 -- Legitimating the giveaway, June 1990 to February 1991 -- Creating plutocracy, February 1991 to May 1992 -- Implementing the ownership regime, February 1991 to December 1995 -- The abuses of plutocracy, the failure of Czech neoliberalism, January 1996 to December 1997 -- Political and economic implications of Czech rapid privatization -- Plutocracy escaped, plutocracy avoided, plutocracy embedded.
Subject Privatization -- Europe, Eastern.
Privatization -- Europe, Central.
Privatization -- Former Soviet republics.
ISBN 0742553086 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0742553078 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780742553071
9780742553088
Standard No. YDXCP 2399380
YDXCP 2399381
NZ1 10759725

 
    
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