First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Contributors: Leszek Balcerowicz , Central School of Planning and Statistics, Warsaw and former Deputy Prime Minister of Poland; Raimund Dietz , Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies; D. Duff Milenkovitch , Columbia University, New York; Irena Grosfeld , DELTA, Paris; Helmut Leipold , University of Marburg, Germany; J. Michael Montias , Yale University; Alec Nove , University of Glasgow; Petr O. Aven , Advisor to Stanislav Shatalin, Chief Economic Advisor to Gorbachev, Institute of System Research, Moscow and IIASA, Austria; Wodzimierz Brus , St Antony's College, Oxford; Robert W. Davies , University of Birmingham; Tadeusz Kowalik , Institute of the History of Science, Warsaw; Pekka Sutela , University of Helsinki; Xiaochuan Zhou , formerly Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, People's Republic of China; Alexander Bajt , University of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia and advisor to Markovich, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia; Ellen Comisso , University of California, San Diego; Jerzy Osiatynski , Minister of Planning, Poland and Institute of the History of Science, Warsaw; Leon Podkaminer , Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw; Márton Tardos , Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Chief Economic Advisor to the party of the Free Democrats in Hungary