Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1 The 'socialist calculation debate' and reform discussions in socialist countries -- 2 The reform of Soviet socialism as a search for systemic rationality -- 3 An organizational theory of the socialist economy -- 4 Reform economics and western economic theory -- 5 Some institutional failures of socialist market economie -- 6 On firms, hierarchies and economic reforms -- 7 Soviet reforms and western neo-classical economics -- 8 Economic reform in a bargaining economy -- 9 From revisionism to pragmatism -- 10 Soviet economic reform in historical perspective -- 11 Reform economics and bureaucracy -- 12 Reformability of the 'objective economic laws' of socialism -- 13 The theoretical and psychological obstacles to market-oriented reform in China -- 14 The scope of economic reforms in socialist countries -- 15 The political conditions of economic reform in socialism -- 16 Opposition against market-type reforms in centrally-planned economies -- 17 Macroeconomic policy for the transitional reforms in the centrally-planned economies -- 18 The property rights in Hungary -- Index.