Paradigm Lost :Yugoslav Self-Management and the Economics of Disaster

Abstract

Democracies create free markets that offer economic opportunity, make for more reliable trading partners and are less likely to wage war on one another. While democracy will not soon take hold everywhere, it is in our interest to do all that we can to enlarge the community of free and open societies, especially in areas of greatest strategic interest, as in Central and Eastern Europe. I believe it is easier to wage war than to organise [sic] the government and direct social development, becau...