The economic transformation of Central and Eastern Europe in historical perspective: main themes and issues / David F. Good -- External shocks and long-term patterns of economic growth in Central and Eastern Europe / Felix Butschek -- Institutions and markets in history: lessons for Central and Eastern Europe / Lee J. Alston -- Continuity and discontinuity: banking and industry in twentieth-century Central Europe / Alice Teichova -- The collapse of state socialism: causes and consequences / Ivan T. Berend -- The rise and fall of Yugoslav socialism: a case study of the Yugo automobile enterprise 1954-92 / Michael Palairet -- The transition to market economies: lessons from Hungary and the case for pessimism / Scott M. Eddie -- The Austrian social partnership: a model for Central and Eastern Europe? / Anton Pelinka -- The Yugoslav economy from amalgamation to disintegration: failed efforts at molding a new economic space 1919-91 / Ivo Biโcaniโc and Marko ้Skreb -- Structural changes in Polish agriculture 1918-89 / Janusz Kaliโnski -- The political economy of agriculture in Czechoslovakia 1899-1992 / Daniel E. Miller -- German banks and foreign investment in Central and Eastern Europe before 1939 / Richard Tilly -- Austro-Hungarian trade and the economic development of southeastern Europe before World War I / Roumyana Preshlenova -- Between political disintegration and economic reintegration: Austrian trade relations with the successor states after World War I / J่urgen Nautz -- Foreign trade in Austria and East-Central Europe: retrospective and perspective / Jan Stankovsky