Werner Bonefeld, Alice Brown and Peter Burnham
Ashgate
Hardback
248
1995
The history of socialism?s attempts to decentralize began with the reforms in the mid-sixties. The book traces the frustrated efforts of the party to maintain economic power and control while decentralizing enough to encourage individual enterprises to accept more responsibility and achieve greater efficiency and quality in their production efforts. The economic decline of President Gorbachev in the Soviet Union and General Secretary Erich Honecker in East Germany is discussed and the final chapters review the problems of transforming these planning systems to market economies.
Ashgate
Hardback
248
1995
The history of socialism?s attempts to decentralize began with the reforms in the mid-sixties. The book traces the frustrated efforts of the party to maintain economic power and control while decentralizing enough to encourage individual enterprises to accept more responsibility and achieve greater efficiency and quality in their production efforts. The economic decline of President Gorbachev in the Soviet Union and General Secretary Erich Honecker in East Germany is discussed and the final chapters review the problems of transforming these planning systems to market economies.