Product Description: This two-part multivolume set provides a comprehensive overview of current achievements in biomedical applications of nanotechnology, including stem cell based regenerative medicine, medical imaging, cell targeting, drug delivery, and photothermal/photodynamic cancer therapy...read more

Gorbachev’s accession to General Secretary promised great changes to the Soviet Union and its relationship with the rest of the world. This book, first published in 1987, discusses the problems faced by Gorbachev when he entered office and how he planned to tackle them. Gorbachev was a figure of genuine debate in the mid-1980s, raising doubts from Western specialists regarding his radicalism and ability to reform the Soviet economic system in particular. Here, Dyker and his colleagues assess the changes Gorbachev had already made to consolidate his power base, alongside those that he was proposing to make to agriculture, industry and foreign relations at the time of publication. The book speculates about how Gorbachev might implement his proposed political and economic reforms, what opposition he might encounter and how successful he would be. A fascinating insight into Soviet economic and political policy in the years leading up to the Union’s collapse, this work will be of particular importance to students and academics researching the personality of Gorbachev and the political and economic history of the Soviet Union.

First published in 1985, this book offered a fresh analysis of the problems faced by the Soviet economy by focussing on the key issues in the economic planning system. David Dyker considers the available options for reform during the 1980s and the most likely developments. Discussing the origins of the Soviet economic planning system and the theories which founded it, previous attempts to reform the organisational structure and the particular problem of agriculture, Dyker presents a picture of an increasingly bleak future for the Soviet economy. This is a comprehensive title written by a renowned expert on the Soviet economy, which will be of particular value to students and academics researching the political and economic development and history of the Soviet Union.

Product Description: This book uses a range of S&T and structural indicators to analyse the transfonnation process, in particular the transfonnation of science, technology and industry, in the fonner communist countries. The book originates from a sense of the tremendous need for quantitative indicators for assessing trends and perfonnance in the post-socialist economies...read more

Product Description: This book addresses one of the fundamental problems in Russian society, and in Russia's relations with the rest of the world. Why do Russians tend to react differently from 'us' in given diplomatic or business situations? Why do they find the notion of a contract difficult to grasp? Why do they seem hostile to the principle of the level playing field? How do they see Russia's position within the globalised economy? In order to probe these issues, the author begins with a historical analysis, looking at the pattern of political and economic development since Tsarist times, always asking the questions: What is unique to Russia in all this, and which unique features tend to recur in different periods? In seeking to illuminate the interface between Russia and the world, the author also examines Russia's attitude to itself, and to its own resources -- natural and human -- to land as an agricultural resource, and later oil and gas; and to people -- as cheap labour and as highly trained scientific personnel...read more

Product Description: This 1983 book presents a comprehensive account of the cycle of fixed capital investment in the Soviet Union, from strategic decision-taking in the Kremlin down to the level of individual building sites. Dr Dyker places the subject in the context of welfare economics and decision-taking theory, but the book's emphasis is on the detailed empirical analysis of Soviet material...read more

Product Description: This important book focuses on post-Lisbon Agenda issues of alignment and misalignment on different dimensions of European society and the European economy, including industrial systems, R&D systems, educational systems and job markets...read more

Product Description: A product of the Framework V research project, this book addresses one of the key problems facing the Eu today: Why is the 'new' Eu so much poorer than the 'old', and how will Eu enlargement help to solve the problem? Focusing on the productivity problems underlying the East-West gap, it looks in particular at the role that foreign investment and R&D can play in closing it...read more

Product Description: In this collection of essays David A Dyker explores some of the most difficult and fascinating aspects of the process of transition from autocratic “real socialism” to a capitalism that is sometimes democratic, sometimes authoritarian...read more

"Restructuring the Soviet Economy" addresses the fundamental economic problem facing the Soviet government at the present time. How can an economy which has been centrally planned for 60 years make the testing and painful transition to market-based principles? The Soviet experience in the latter half of the 1980s suggests that it is going to be a much more difficult task than was initially believed in either East or West. David Dyker seeks to uncover the underlying reasons for the paralysis of perestroika. He focuses on the crisis points - some new, some perennial - of the economy: the relationship between the enterprise, the regions and the centre, agriculture, investment, inflation, and the budget deficit. A concise treatment of an area which the non-specialist often finds obscure, it is designed to be analytical, without being too technical for the non-economist. This book should be of interest to lecturers and students of Soviet studies, economics and European studies.

Product Description: This book uses a range of S&T and structural indicators to analyse the transfonnation process, in particular the transfonnation of science, technology and industry, in the fonner communist countries. The book originates from a sense of the tremendous need for quantitative indicators for assessing trends and perfonnance in the post-socialist economies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book focuses on the impact of foreign investment on selected sectors of two key transition economies - Russia and the Ukraine - to explain the effect of foreign direct investment on the transitional economy. It examines how key Western players in the international investment business have chosen whether to invest in the former Soviet Union and applies these findings to sectors within Russia and the Ukraine...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

As the European economy becomes more integrated it is evolving into one of the most powerful economic forces of the world. But what are its characteristics? This book provides an account of the principal features of the European economy, its major industries and its relations with the rest of the world. It covers both East and West Europe for a complete review of the European economy and provides historical background of the development of the European economy since 1945. It includes chapters on strategic European industries. It is designed as a main text for students on courses covering European economics and as a supplementary text for courses on international macroeconomics, industrial economcs, applied economics. Lecturers of European economics, and international economics, international macroeconomics, industrail economics and European eonomic history should also find it useful.

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Product Description: This book seeks to tackle a problem that has been neglected in the transition literature on Eastern Europe: how can countries that have suffered stagnation in productivity levels and a complete loss of momentum in innovation over a period of 20-30 years rediscover their dynamism? The contributors advance a careful and dynamic challenge to the prevailing belief of the standard "shock therapy" literature that believes that balanced budgets and stable prices are sufficient to cure the ills of economically stagnant societies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The collapse of communist power in the Soviet Union and subsequent measures to establish a private sector have created opportunities for both foreign and domestic private capital in Russia, and the non-Russian republics of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)...read more

Despite the rapid pace of economic integration in Europe, the European economy is still made up of a collection of national economies ranging from industrial giants such as Germany to the poor economies of Eastern Europe. "The National Economies of Europe" provides country studies of a representative range of European economies. It covers both East and West Europe providing a comprehensive overview of European economies. Each chapter is written to a standard specification for a totally unified approach and it also analyzes the problem in moving from command to market economies. The book is aimed at students taking courses on European economics and can be used as a supplementary text for comparative economic systems and economic history. Lecturers with research and teaching interests in European economics, comparative economic systems, economic reform, macroeconomic policy and economic history should also find it useful.