Former Socialist Economies and the Undergraduate Curriculum

Adjustnent through Opening of Socialist Economies

1.1 Systemic barriers to growth in the socialist 6 countries in the 1970s 1.2 Growing need for reform and the Hungarian experience 8 1.3 Systemic reforms vs. external financing.

Competition and Mobile Communications in Former Socialist Countries

I estimate a logistic model of mobile communications diffusion to examine the impact of competition on cellular penetration in former socialist countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Not surprisingly, I find that the introduction of competition led to a higher speed of adoption of mobile technology. Perhaps more surprisingly, sequential competition had a greater impact than simultaneous ...

Property Rights and Stratification in Socialist Redistributive Economies

Psychiatry in Former Socialist Countries: Implications for North Korean Psychiatry

Very little information is available regarding psychiatry in North Korea, which is based on the legacy of Soviet psychiatry. This paper reviews the characteristics of psychiatry in former socialist countries and discusses its implications for North Korean psychiatry. Under socialism, psychiatric disorders were attributed primarily to neurophysiologic or neurobiological origins. Psychosocial or ...

Informal Economies in Post-Socialist Spaces – Practices, Institutions and Networks