A theme that emerges from the papers on systemic transition selected from the IEA 1992 Congress in Moscow is the contemporary battle of post-communist countries with time. Most chapters deal with newly-democratised governments which are switching from command to market both quickly and on a scale never previously attempted. Others re-examine the transition to capitalism in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries from rural England to the Caucasian oilfields.

Inhalt
Preface; A.B.Atkinson Introduction; A.Aganbegyan & M.Kaser - PART 1: ECONOMIES OF THE SUCCESSOR STATES OF THE USSR - Congress Address; Y.Gaidar - Market Transformation in Russia: Prospects still Uncertain; O.Bogomolov - The Crisis of Economic Reform in Russia; N.Petrakov - The Economic Strategy of Ukraine in a World Context; I.Lukinov - The Economic Demography of the CIS; T.Timofeev & V.Perevedentsev - Growth Prospects for the Ex-Soviet Republics: Lessons from Soviet Historical Experience; W.Easterly & S.Fischer - Macroeconomic Stabilization and Structural Changes: Orthodox, Heterodox or Otherwise?; G.Ofer - PART 2: SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE - Trading Institutions and the Commercial Revolution in Medieval Europe; A.Greif - The Evolution of Intellectual Property Institutions; P.David - The Spreading of England's Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the Seasonality of Marriage; A.Kussmaul - Insights from Early Capitalism for Eastern Europe Today; C.Taft-Morris - The Russian Land Commune and the Mobility of Labour during Industrialization, 1885-1913; L.Borodkin & C.Leonard - Discrimination in the Labour Market in the Baku Oil Industry; I.Garskova & P.Akhanchi - Systemic Differences and Stabilization Policies in Germany and the USSR, 1923-28; D.Sedik - PART 3: THE NEW EUROPEAN ECONOMIC SPACE - European Prospects after Maastricht: Problems of Implementation; P.Maillet - Export Performance in Transforming Economies: A First Assessment; A.Inotai - PART 4: ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION OF EASTERN EUROPE - Economic Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe: Lessons from Experience; D.Rosati - Economic Transformation and the Reform of the Financial System in Central and Eastern Europe; I.Szekely - Towards Privatization: The Breaking-up of Large Conglomerates and Debt Allocation; E.Sheshinski - PART 5: THE ECONOMICS OF DISARMAMENT - Choosing the Right Economics for Disarmament; C.Schmidt - The Economics of Disarmament, Arms Races and Arms Control; M.Intriligator & D.Brito