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Post-Communist Transition:

Some Lessons

Post-Communist Transition:

Some Lessons

LESZEK BALCEROWICZ

thirty-first wincott lecture

8 october 2001

The Institute of Economic Affairs

First published in Great Britain in 2002 by

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CONTENTS

The author 7

Foreword by Geoffrey Owen 9

Acknowledgements 12

Summary 13

List of tables 15

1 Introduction 17

2 Post-communist transition in a

comparative perspective 20

3 The communist institutional system:

a stylised description 28

4 Initial conditions, extent of reforms,

economic performance 32

A simple analytical framework 32

Different economic outcomes 35

Explaining differences in outcomes 39

5 On the political economy of transition 45

The political breakthrough 45

The role of reformers 48

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