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Article: Economics Ph.D. Education in Central and Eastern Europe.
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- Comparative Economic Studies
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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Prepared for ACES Panel on "Graduate Economics Education in Transition Economies, " ASSA Meetings, Boston, January 2000.
1. Background
Most Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries started in 1989 from a centralized system of economics education that consisted of several tracks of Communist party approved non- or semi-analytical courses, as well as a track of rigorous training in mathematics and statistics. The mathematics and statistics track usually attracted a minority of students. Its curriculum was moderately related to the functioning of a centrally planned or labor-managed economy; it was rarely applied to the functioning of a western style ...