Comparative Economic Systems

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Chinese Economy: Structure and Trends -- Introduction -- Nature of Economy and Government -- Approach to Planning and Development -- Growth, Distribution, and Inflation -- Notes -- Questions for Review, Discussion, Examination -- Chapter 2: Reforming the Chinese Economy -- The Organization of Agriculture Before Reform -- The Reform of Agriculture -- Foreign Economic Relations -- Small-Scale Enterprise -- The Chinese Reform Experience -- Concluding Comments: What Lies Ahead? -- Notes -- Questions for Review, Discussion, Examination -- Chapter 3: The Hungarian Economy -- The Nature of Hungary's Economy and Government -- Changes on the Eve of Transition -- The Transition in Hungary -- Notes -- Questions for Review, Discussion, Examination -- Chapter 4: The Japanese Economy I: Postwar Adjustment -- Introduction -- Social and Economic Consequences of the Postwar Occupation -- Notes -- Questions for Review, Discussion, Examination -- Chapter 5: The Japanese Economy II: Framework and Systems -- Underlying Social Framework of the Japanese Economy -- Nature of the Economic System -- The Financial System -- Financial Leverage of the Government -- The "Bubble" Economy -- Competition and Keiretsu -- Labor Relations -- Notes -- Questions for Review, Discussion, Examination -- Chapter 6: The Japanese Economy III: Government Guidance -- Formal Economic Planning -- Industrial Policy -- Administrative Controls and Exploitation of Technology -- Contradictions of Industrial Policy -- Japan's Strategy of Economic Development -- Toward the Future -- Notes -- Questions for Review, Discussion, Examination -- Chapter 7: The Economy of Taiwan -- Introduction: Underlying Trends