Download or read book Economic Reform and Political Change in Eastern Europe written by Judy Batt and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-06-21 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic reform - the introduction of elements of the market into a planned economy - has been the central political problem for socialist states for at least three decades. This book seeks to elucidate the nature of the problem through a reconsideration of the general theoretical issues, and through a comparative analysis of the practice of economic reform in two countries - Czechoslovakia and Hungary.