Technology Export From The Socialist Countries

Technology Export From The Socialist Countries

Author: Jan Monkiewicz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-11

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 1000314170

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Only since the 1970s have the East European Socialist countries (known collectively as Comecon) participated in the international exchange of technology as exporters. In this book, Drs. Monkiewicz and Maciejewicz analyze the technology export performance of the Comecon countries. They begin by defining the nature of technology as a commodity, analyzing the structural characteristics of the international market, and outlining both the cost and benefits of technology export. Later chapters provide an overview of Comecon technological policies in the 1970s, with particular attention to the export-import factor and Comecon regional technological cooperation. In-depth analysis is presented through case studies of the experiences of Poland and Czechoslovakia. The book concludes with a discussion of the implications of technology export by socialist countries, particularly its potential impact on existing global patterns of technological dependence and domination.


Technology Transfer and East-West Relations

Technology Transfer and East-West Relations

Author: Mark Schaffer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-09

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1351118080

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Originally published in 1985, in the deteriorating climate of East-West relations technology transfer became vitally important. The Eastern bloc desperately needed Western technology to assist in the development of the socialist economies, but a proposed US ban on the export of Western technology to the Siberian pipeline project led to increasing tension within the Western alliance abot the nature and scale of high technology that could be safely exported to the East. This book reviews the state of technology transfer to the East in the 1980s and considers the place of Western technology in the Eastern economies. It also discusses the strategic goals of Western technology embargoes. Many of the issues discussed remain pertinent today.


Price and Quality Competitiveness of Socialist Countries' Exports

Price and Quality Competitiveness of Socialist Countries' Exports

Author: Zdenek Drabek

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13:

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The centrally planned economies sell exports of raw materials, food, and some manufacturing goods at world market prices. Most of their exports of manufactured goods are underpriced - mostly because they are inferior in quality.


The Economics Of Export Restrictions

The Economics Of Export Restrictions

Author: Jimmy Weinblatt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-09-06

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 100031619X

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Export restrictions represent an economic phenomenon that has existed for millenia. This report is the result of a two-year research project on the subject of free access to commodity markets carried out jointly by the David Horowitz Institute for the Research of Developing Countries, Tel Aviv University and the Ibero-Amerika Institut, University of Goettingen. The project was financed by a grant from the Volkswagen Foundation.


Socialist Countries Face the European Community

Socialist Countries Face the European Community

Author: Suvi Kansikas

Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783631648025

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The study analyses the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance's (CMEA) discussions on the advisability of opening contacts with the EC in the first half of the 1970s. The European allies were able to force their positions towards the USSR. Based on newly declassified archival sources, the book gives a more refined view of the CMEA.


The Economic Sources of Social Order Development in Post-socialist Eastern Europe

The Economic Sources of Social Order Development in Post-socialist Eastern Europe

Author: Richard Connolly

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0415672422

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Nearly twenty years after the collapse of socialism, the countries of post-socialist Eastern Europe have experienced divergent trajectories of political development. This book looks at why this is the case, based on the assumption that societies, or social orders, can be distinguished by the extent to which competitive tendencies contained within them – economic, political, social and cultural – are resolved according to open, rule-based processes. The book explores which economic conditions allow for increased levels of political competition, and it tests the hypothesis that the nature of a country’s ties with the international economy, and the level of competition within a country’s economic system, will shape the trajectory of political competition within that society. The book goes on to argue that after several decades of relative ‘bloc autarky’ during the socialist period, the ongoing process of reintegration with the international economy across the post-socialist region has resulted in distinct patterns of structural economic development, and that that these patterns are of crucial importance in explaining the variation in social order type across the post-socialist region. By offering a more precise analysis of the causal mechanisms that link economic and political competition, the book makes a useful contribution to research on the different patterns of political behaviour that have been observed across the post-socialist region since the collapse of the socialist regimes.