The subject of self-management - of companies in which the decisions are made by the work force rather than by the managers or owners - has long been of interest both to economists and to a wider audience. In this 1984 book Saul Estrin offers a comprehensive survey of how workers' self-management has influenced industrial structure and the allocation of resources in Yugoslavia, where a system of this type has operated since the 1950s. The book will interest economists concerned with the likely impact of workers' participation as well as specialists in self-management theory and the operation of the Yugoslav economy.

Product Description: Microeconomics caters for all students studying the subject, challenging the most able reader whilst leaving no student behind.

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Product Description: Reconstituting the Market details many transition economies - some already well known, others enjoying very little attention from researchers - and a range of important issues to do with state building and its links with microeconomic transformation...read more

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Product Description: Intellectual advances in economics often come from debates that have been partly forgotten but which offer context, depth, commitment and clarity to contemporary study. ESSENTIAL READINGS IN ECONOMICS makes available in a single volume some of the seminal papers in the area of microeconomics and macroeconomics for introductory and intermediate courses in economic principles, and has an Introduction by Saul Estrin and Alan Marin...read more

This edition provides questions to allow self-testing of understanding. Increased coverage of industrial organization and information economics and a substantially increased final part on general equilibrium and welfare covers externalities, public goods and public choice.

Product Description: This book provides an overview of the privatization issues within Central and Eastern Europe. It seeks to tackle both the theoretical questions and to reflect upon the experiences in key privatization experiments. In the country papers the contributors have sought to explain the economic, political and social nature of the privatization process...read more

Product Description: What is "market socialism"? Can markets be used to achieve socialist ends? A distinguished group of academics here explore the political, social, economic, and philosophical implications of market socialism, and show how markets, sensibly used, can promote socialism more effectively than traditional socialist economic mechanisms...read more