A Fourth Way?: Privatization, Property, and the Emergence of New Market Economies

Gregory S. Alexander, Grazyna Skapska

I: The Transition to Private Property—Legal Perspectives; The Challenge of Privatization in the Former East Germany: Reconciling the Conflict between Individual Rights and Social Needs; The Uneasy Breach with Socialized Ownership: Legal Aspects of Privatization of State-owned Enterprises in Poland; Pensioners in America: The Economic Triumph and Political Limitations of Passive Ownership; II: The Transition to Market Economy— Economic Perspectives; The Transition to a Market Economy in Russia: Property Rights, Mass Privatization and Stabilization; Stabilization versus Privatization in Poland: A Sequencing Problem at Macro- and Microeconomic Levels; The Private Provision of Public Goods: Principles and Implications; III: The Emerging Social Order of the New Market Economies; Privatization in Poland: The Evolution of Opinions and Interests, 1988–1992; Private Farm Ownership in a Changing Poland: Myth and Reality; Social Consciousness in Transition: Toward a New Economic and Political System; Beyond Constructivism and Rationality of Discovery: Economic Transformation and Institution-Building Processes; New Forms of State Ownership in Poland: The Case of Commercialization; Has State Ownership Truly Abandoned Socialism? The Survival of Socialist Economy and Law in Postcommunist Hungary; Privatization as a Gender Issue; IV: Toward A Fourth Way— Programmatic Statements; Neither the Market Nor the State: Housing Privatization Issues; Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives As A Mode of Privatization; Republicanism, Market Socialism, and the Third Way; Legal Theory and Democratic Reconstruction: Reflections on 1989

This collection on the privatization of property ownership seeks to explore the middle ground between state socialism and corporate capitalism. It examines the transition to market economies in post-Communist Eastern Europe and considers Western experiences with alternative forms of ownership.