Privatization and Entrepreneurship in Post-Socialist Countries: Economy, Law and Society

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-27
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
The autonomous sector in a society of shortage....Pages 31-45
Perestroika, the autonomous sector and the transition from the ‘contra-system’ to a civil society?....Pages 47-58
Property relations in the period of transition....Pages 59-68
Issues in state and private sector relations in the Soviet economy....Pages 69-88
Organizational innovation and entrepreneurial formation. Some comparative remarks....Pages 89-109
From underground to legitimacy: the normative dilemmas of post-communist marketization....Pages 111-142
Seeking legal forms for the autonomous sector....Pages 143-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
The reality and potential of autonomous entrepreneurship....Pages 155-172
Transformation of a centrally-directed economy: ownership and privatization in Hungary during 1990....Pages 173-185
The role of law in autonomization of the USSR economy....Pages 187-191
New economic forms, Soviet labour law and the trade unions....Pages 193-214
The entrepreneurial spirit and Soviet medicine....Pages 215-244
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
The role of new cooperatives in the Soviet economy....Pages 247-273
Soviet cooperatives and the labour market....Pages 275-305
Entrepreneurship: some legal and social problems....Pages 307-325
The role of the non-socialized sector in perestroika: present state and prospects....Pages 327-342
On the efficiency of Soviet cooperatives: a critical appraisal....Pages 343-355
Back Matter....Pages 356-360