How Far Has the Transition Progressed?
概述东欧和前苏联国家的经济转型，描述改革措施、后果及经济学家的教训，涵盖政治发展、自由化、制度重建、社会保障改革和早期转型结果。
As the opening contribution to a four-page symposium, this paper provides an overview of the economic transformation in reforming countries of eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, describing reforms, their consequences, and lessons economists might derive from transition. The topics covered are political developments, liberalization, institutional reconstruction, reforms of systems for social protection, and the early results of transition. The final section considers future possibilities in the light of the last few years’ events, concluding that the process of democratic capitalism is well established in central Europe, but uncertainty still prevails in most of the former Soviet Union.