Gérard
Roland
Project Director
Contact information
Professor of Economics and Political Science
Department of Economics
University of California, Berkeley
549 Evans Hall # 3880
Berkeley, CA 94720-3880
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Research project:
UNU-WIDER Publications:
- Civil Society, Institutional Change and the Politics of Reform: The Great Transition
- Economies in Transition: The Long-Run View
- The Long-Run Weight of Communism or the Weight of Long-Run History?
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Further reading
Reflections on Transition: Twenty Years after the Fall of The Berlin Wall
Gérard Roland
The above titled book, published by Palgrave Macmillan 2012, brings together contributions from a conference that took place in Helsinki in September 2009. The conference involved a group of top scholars who have done research on the process of transition from socialism to capitalism over the last twenty years. Instead of looking back and reflecting one more time on transition policies from twenty years ago, as was the case for many commemorations, the conference focused instead on the long-run view of transition. Full article.