Transition Economies provides students with an up-to-date and highly
comprehensive analysis of the economic transformation in former
communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe and countries of the
former Soviet Union. With coverage extending from the end of central
planning to the capitalist varieties of the present, this text provides
a comparative analysis of economic transformation and political-economic
diversity that has emerged as a direct result. It covers differences
between countries in terms of economic performance and integration into
the world economy. Transition Economies seeks to explain and deepen
understanding of these differences, chart the emerging forms of
capitalism there, and provide country responses to the world financial
crisis of 2008-2009.