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Against 'Big Bang' in Economic Transition: Normative and Positive Arguments

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  • Tsang, Shu-ki

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This paper puts forward two major sets of institutional and systems arguments against implementing the 'big bang' experiment in the transformation of centrally planned economies: (1) problems arising from the difficulties of establishing criteria for asset valuation in the transition and the large backlog of the 'implicit contracts of socialism' and (2) the danger of unleashing uncoordinated changes in subsystems that adjust at significantly different speeds. These arguments, covering both normative and technical considerations, are cast in a relatively broad framework and constitute an additional plea for caution against adventurism in the economic transition. (c) 1996 Academic Press Limited Copyright 1996 by Oxford University Press.

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  • Tsang, Shu-ki, 1996. "Against 'Big Bang' in Economic Transition: Normative and Positive Arguments," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 20(2), pages 183-193, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cambje:v:20:y:1996:i:2:p:183-93
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