TY - BOOK AU - Schnitzer,Martin TI - Comparative economic systems SN - 0324004281 AV - HB90 .S35 2000 U1 - 330 21 PY - 2000///] CY - Australia PB - South-Western College Publishing KW - Comparative economics N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; PART 1: THE WORLD OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. 1. The American Century. PART 2: MARKET MECHANISMS AND CAPITALISM. 2. Capitalism as an Economic System. 3. The United States. 4. Japan. 5. Germany. PART 3: NONMARKET MECHANISMS AND SOCIALISM. 6. Socialism as an Economic System. 7. The Rise and Fall of Communism. 8. The Russian Federation. 9. Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. PART 4. MARKET AND NONMARKET MECHANISMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. 10. Economies of the Less-Developed and Developing Countries. 11. China. 12. India. 13. Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. 14. Africa. PART 5: TOWARD A NEW WORLD ORDER. 15. Regional Integration: The European Union. 16. The World of the Twenty-First Century; 300-399 N2 - This marketing text focuses on comparisons between the three major types of economic systems of today - capitalism, socialism and the economies of the LDC's and developing countries ER -