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A Study Of The Market Reforms In Post-Communist Eastern Europe With A Specific Introduction Poland, as well as it's fellow post-communist countries, face an arduous task in re-inventing their economies to match the dominant Western style currently dominating the w ....

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.... were faced with four challenges that would, if met, have meant the continuation of the USSR. Resource saving miniaturization requiring high technology and skill were demanded (command economies have neither), Flexible production to meet a variety of needs (command economies have large factories to keep production high - they, thus, did not have the funds or ability to affect the necessary changes to their means of production), the "information age" meant that the communist bloc had to deny the new prevalent types of technology, which would spread Western ideas, and thus they fell behind), and "software" became essential to the growth of i ....