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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Michigan Press
ISBN-100472112090
ISBN-139780472112098
eBay Product ID (ePID)1787820
Product Key Features
Number of Pages144 Pages
Publication NameEvolution of Agrarian Institutions : a Comparative Study of Post-Socialist Hungary and Bulgaria
LanguageEnglish
SubjectInternational / Economics, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Development / Business Development, Economic Conditions, Agriculture / General, Public Policy / Economic Policy
Publication Year2001
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
AuthorMieke E. Meurs
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight14.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2001-000384
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsCo-winner: American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) 2002 Edward A. Hewett Book Prize, Co-winner: 2002 Edward A. Hewett Book Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal338.1/09439
SynopsisAn examination of why private farming in the transition economies of East-Central Europe has not grown as quickly as expected, The Evolution of Agrarian Institutions studies the unexpectedly slow and uneven growth of private agriculture in postsocialist East-Central Europe. Comparing developments in Hungary and Bulgaria, Mieke Meurs offers an explanation for this slow growth and examines its implications for efficiency and income distribution in postsocialist agriculture. With the collapse of the state socialist regimes in East-Central Europe, it was widely expected that collectivized agriculture would quickly be remade in the glowing image of China--a patchwork of small, privately run farms yielding rapid increases in output and incomes. However, the European experience has been quite different; while socialist collective farms have disappeared, collective forms of organization have persisted, and private farming has been slow to emerge. Meurs argues that an understanding of the causes of the slow emergence of private farming is essential to effective policy intervention in agriculture. This book contributes to such an understanding through analyzing variations in farm organization and rural market development and comparing agricultural restructuring in Hungary and Bulgaria. The Evolution of Agrarian Institutions is unique in its combination of original survey data, published data on land use, and published historical data. It also tests two institutionalist explanations for the pace and direction of change in agricultural organization. This book will be of interest to economists, political scientists, sociologists, scholars working in the area of rural development in emerging countries, and anyone with an interest in transitional economics. Mieke Meurs is Associate Professor of Economics, American University.
LC Classification NumberHD1491.H9M47 2001
