Privatization in Eastern Europe: Legal, Economic, and Social Aspects

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Privatization in Eastern Europe: Legal, Economic, and Social Aspects, edited by Hans Smit and Vratislav Pechota. Irvington-on-Hudson, New York: Transnational Juris Publications, 1994. Pp. 255. $95.00 (hardcover) .

In recent years many socialist nations have experimented with, and worked towards, privatization of their state-owned industries and a shift to a market economy. The countries contemplating this change include: the nations of the former Soviet bloc, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, and China. Privatization in Eastern Europe: Legal, Economic, and Social Aspects is a collection of papers previously presented at a conference on the privatization process in Eastern Europe in 1993. …