Economic Dilemmas of Eastern Europe
Economic Dilemmas of Eastern Europe

Summary/Abstract: To speak of "dilemmas" is to suggest conflicting interests and complex choices. Few observers would deny that the alternatives facing the socialist economies of Eastern Europe from the late 1980s forward constitute a series of dilemmas. Exploring the implications of these dilemmas for internal reform and international trade was the principal purpose of the conference organized at The Wilson Center by its East European Program on September 24 and 25, 1987. Economists from Eastern and Western Europe as well as the United States, plus several international bankers, were invited to present papers and exchange views based on data through 1986. We wished to emphasize East European countries, and to compare them, rather than to concentrate on western or Soviet interests, though of course neither of these can be ignored in the study of East European economic problems. [...]

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