Welfare, Choice and Solidarity in Transition - Kornai, Janos (Harvard University, Massachusetts) a Eggleston, Karen (Global Fellow, Tufts University, Massachusetts)

Reform of the welfare sector is an important yet difficult challenge for countries in transition from socialist central planning to market-oriented democracies. Here a scholar of the economics of socialism and a health economist offer health sector reform recommendations for ten countries of Eastern Europe, drawn from nine guiding principles.