The Hungarian Economic Reforms 1953-1988 (Paperback)

Preface; Introduction; Part I. The First Phase of the Reform Process: the intellectual antecedents and the first corrective steps, 1953?1964: 1. The first moves to correct the economic mechanism; 2. The critique of the command economy: towards a new concept of the economic system; 3. The turn: reforms goals of the government and the practice of correction; 4. Economic reform and the workers' councils; 5. The principle of the substantial reform; 6. A counterproposal for partial corrective measures; 7. Immediate corrections to the operation of the economy; 8. Intervention against the comprehensive reform plans as 'economic revisionism'; 9. Minor corrections - the transformation of company structures; 11. The new model for agricultural cooperatives; 12. First criticisms of the ineffectiveness of the corrective policy; Part II. The 1966 decision on comprehensive reform: the second phase: 13. Disequilibrium, tensions and shortcomings in the workings of the economy; 14. Plans and preparation for reform in other socialist countries; 15. The political background to the reform; 16. The reform decision; 17. Debates on the reform and compromises before its introduction; 18. The main features of the new reform system; 19. The plan and preparations for continuing the reform after 1968; 20. The reform comes to a halt and reversal; 21. The oil crisis and its consequences; Part III. The Third Phase of the Reform Process, from 1979 onwards: 22. Changing political conditions; 23. Returning to reform; 24. A new chapter in the debates on reform: the reform decisions of 1984 and 1987; 25. The price reform of 1979?1980; 26. Partial reform of the system of institutions; 27. Internal contradictions and delays in the process of reform; 28. A new role for small business; 29. From reform towards a change of system; Notes; Index.