Privatization in Eastern Europe: Is the State Withering Away?

by Roman Frydman and Andrzej Rapaczynski

In Eastern Europe privatization is now a mass phenomenon. The authors propose a model of it by means of an illustration from the example of Poland, which envisages the free provision of shares in formerly public undertakings to employees and consumers, and the provision of corporate finance from foreign intermediaries. One danger that emerges is that of bureaucratization. On the broader canvas, mass privatization implies the reform of the whole system,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1858660041
• ISBN13: 9781858660042
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher