J.L. PORKET is a Senior Associate at St Antony's College, Oxford. He specialises in economics and economic sociology. He is Czech by origin, and left Czechoslovakia in 1969. He was formerly a research fellow at the Prague School of Economics. He has published in both Czech and English on communist systems in Europe and the Soviet Union and post-communist transformations. He has also lectured at Brunel University.

• Contents List of Tables List of Figures Introduction PART I: TENSIONS An Historical Overview Type of Modern Economic System Environment of Modern Economic Systems PART II: SYSTEMS Market Capitalism Command Capitalism Market Socialism Command Socialism PART III: GOVERNMENTS The Government Economy The Welfare State Welfare Under Command Socialism PART IV: TRANSFORMATION Economic Transformation Post-Communist Transformation Models for Transformation Components and Dynamics of Economic Transformation Economic Transformation in Practice Privatization Housholds Attitudes and Politics PART V: FINALE The Individual, the Market, and the State The World in Transition Notes Select Bibliography Index

J.L. PORKET is a Senior Associate at St Antony's College, Oxford. He specialises in economics and economic sociology. He is Czech by origin, and left Czechoslovakia in 1969. He was formerly a research fellow at the Prague School of Economics. He has published in both Czech and English on communist systems in Europe and the Soviet Union and post-communist transformations. He has also lectured at Brunel University.

• Contents List of Tables List of Figures Introduction PART I: TENSIONS An Historical Overview Type of Modern Economic System Environment of Modern Economic Systems PART II: SYSTEMS Market Capitalism Command Capitalism Market Socialism Command Socialism PART III: GOVERNMENTS The Government Economy The Welfare State Welfare Under Command Socialism PART IV: TRANSFORMATION Economic Transformation Post-Communist Transformation Models for Transformation Components and Dynamics of Economic Transformation Economic Transformation in Practice Privatization Housholds Attitudes and Politics PART V: FINALE The Individual, the Market, and the State The World in Transition Notes Select Bibliography Index

J.L. PORKET is a Senior Associate at St Antony's College, Oxford. He specialises in economics and economic sociology. He is Czech by origin, and left Czechoslovakia in 1969. He was formerly a research fellow at the Prague School of Economics. He has published in both Czech and English on communist systems in Europe and the Soviet Union and post-communist transformations. He has also lectured at Brunel University.

• Contents List of Tables List of Figures Introduction PART I: TENSIONS An Historical Overview Type of Modern Economic System Environment of Modern Economic Systems PART II: SYSTEMS Market Capitalism Command Capitalism Market Socialism Command Socialism PART III: GOVERNMENTS The Government Economy The Welfare State Welfare Under Command Socialism PART IV: TRANSFORMATION Economic Transformation Post-Communist Transformation Models for Transformation Components and Dynamics of Economic Transformation Economic Transformation in Practice Privatization Housholds Attitudes and Politics PART V: FINALE The Individual, the Market, and the State The World in Transition Notes Select Bibliography Index