Roadblocks to the socialist modernization path and transition : evidence from East Germany and Poland / / edited by Jutta Günther, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Udo Ludwig, Hans-Jürgen Wagener.
This open access book examines how different economic systems impacted the development of East Germany and Poland. Through comparing these countries while they were centrally planned socialist economies with the periods when they transitioned to capitalism, the inability of socialist economies to mo...
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| Superior document: | Studies in Economic Transition Series |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2023. ©2024. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Economic Transition Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 331 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction2. From East to West: Modernization efforts in the northern and western regions of Poland (1944-1989)3. The importance of technical progress for economic growth in the GDR4. Inefficiency and intransparency in East German foreign trade5. Historical Legacies of Regional Innovation Activity6. Catching-up modernization: Synthetic fibre in the GDR and Poland7. The re-allocation of entrepreneurial talent over the course of radical institutional change : an institutional perspective8. When backwardness became an advantage: Stays abroad as birth assist in Polish transformation9. Transfer of knowledge from the outside or self-learning? Key success criteria for setting-up enterprises in East Germany and Poland after 198910. GDR's researchers catching up on their inclusion in international scientific communities11. After 1989: Socialist elites and post-socialist transformations