Dilemmas of Transition

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This insightful and well-balanced volume contains an excellent blend: chapters dealing with the wide-ranging common problems of all post-socialist countries and others focusing on the specific characteristics of the Hungarian transition. It will become an indispensable handbook for students of recent Hungarian history, and at the same time it will be used by researchers and teachers of post-socialist transition as a source of inspiring thoughts and valuable information. -- Janos Kornai, Harvard University and Collegium Budapest The transition of the former communist countries to democracy and free markets is the great event of our time. This volume provides a detailed and authoritative picture, and a balanced assessment, of one of those countries, illuminating the problems common to them all. -- Michael Mandelbaum, The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, author of The Road to Global Prosperity Economists will appreciate the careful assessments of postcommunist economic transformation in Hungary , and in Central Europe in general. -- H. D. Renning, California State University * CHOICE * Many of the contributors on Hungary are excellent. Dilemmas of Transition will be of great use to anyone seeking a wide-ranging discussion of Hungary since 1989. * Slavic Review * Dilemmas of Transition, written by a group of well-known experts and dealing with the various theoretical and practical aspects of the transition process in Hungary, is well-organized, more detailed and more comprehensive than previous efforts have been and deserves close attention. -- Peter F. Sugar, University of Washington