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Post-Communist Transition Should Not Be Misinterpreted: A Rejoinder

Originally published in Economic Affairs

I am delighted that President Klaus read my article on post-communist transitions and found it worth a thoughtful reply, for which I am very grateful. I have read President Klaus's response carefully; yet I have not detected signs of substantive disagreement. Instead, our possible differences seem to lie in the way we have decided to label different intellectual approaches towards policymaking in transitional environments and in the relevance of such labels in describing actual policy dilemmas in the early 1990s.

I am delighted that President Klaus read my article on post-communist transitions and found it worth a thoughtful reply, for which I am very grateful. I have read President Klaus's response carefully; yet I have not detected signs of substantive disagreement. Instead, our possible differences seem to lie in the way we have decided to label different intellectual approaches towards policymaking in transitional environments and in the relevance of such labels in describing actual policy dilemmas in the early 1990s.

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