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Foreign Economic Liberalization: Transformations In Socialist And Market Economies; The Impact Of Governments On East-West Economic Relations

Edited by Andras Koves and Paul Marer
Edited by Gary K. Bertsch and Steven Elliott-Gower
Reviewed by By William Diebold, Jr.
Fall 1991
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Edited by Andras Koves and Paul Marer
Westview Press
1991
288 pp.
$42.50
Edited by Gary K. Bertsch and Steven Elliott-Gower
New York University Press
1991
407 pp.
$75.00

Written close to the watershed of change in east European economic arrangements, the numerous conference papers in these two volumes-mostly by highly qualified authors-inevitably include both old and new thinking and stimulating analyses as well as some highly predictable pages.

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