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Product Description: The Solidarity-led government which came into power in Poland in Autumn 1989 faced two enormous tasks. First, to stabilize an economy prone to hyperflation. Second, to replace a crumbling command system in favour of a market mechanism, in a country whose market institutions had been destroyed under forty years of communist rule...read more

This is a collection of conference papers presented to a workshop at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. The papers throw new light on a number of important questions: the role of R & D, the nature of gains from trade, the part played by scale economies, and the arguments for intervention.