HIST 106 Lecture Notes - Russian Mafia, Civil Society, Kosovo Liberation Army
28 Mar 2014
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What about minorities: how do you make these changed work and get people to view the new system as legitimate. In the free market economic productivity is down because government subsidies reveal the inefficiency of production. Unemployment at 15% in countries where unemployment was unknown: state building is different because there are no more controls and no more subsidies, huge deficits and people need social benefits at the time when they are hardest to. Industry goes down because it"s privatized and most people remain poor, a few get rich. acquire. Inflation goes up because governments have to borrow. Economic chaos = political chaos: governments fragment, reformers jump ship the rhetoric was easy but governing is difficult, ex-communists are winning elections the polish president lost an election to and ex- In 1991 you could choose from 72 parties in romania communist official. Communists in the balkans never really went away they became converts.
