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Eastern Europe In The World Economy

László Csaba
Reviewed by By William Diebold, Jr.
Spring 1991
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László Csaba
Akademiai Kiado
1990
403 pp.

What were once progressive ideas for reforming economic cooperation among the communist countries have been partly fulfilled, partly made obsolete and partly supplanted by new difficulties. Even a thoughtful and well-informed Hungarian economist such as Csaba of the Institute for the World Economy can throw light on only some of the changed issues.

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