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private entrepreneurship training institution. He has been a consultant
for enterprise restructuring in Slovenia, Hungary, and Moldova. His
publications include ‘Financial System for Restructuring the Yugoslav
Economy’ (co-author T. Petrin) in Financial Reform in Socialist Economies
(1989), ‘Privatization Controversies in the East and West’ (co-authors
D. Ellerman and T. Petrin) in Communist Economies and Economic
Transformation (1991), SMEs and Job Creation in Slovenia (1998, co-authors
M. Glas and T. Petrin), ESBC Seminar, Vienna.
Jaroslav Vanek, born in Prague, has lived and worked in the United
States since 1955, teaching in the Faculty of Economics of Harvard and
Cornell Universities. At Cornell, he founded and directed for twenty
years the Program on Participation and Labor Managed Systems
(PPLMS) and is now Professor Emeritus at Cornell University. He is the
author of several books and many articles on international economics
and economic democracy, including the General Theory of Labor-Managed
Market Economies (Cornell University Press, 1970) and Self-Management,
Economic Liberation of Man (Penguin, 1975). More recently, he has developed
simple solar energy technologies for the STEVEN Foundation, and
invented an all-wheel-drive bicycle, the ‘Vanek Superbike’.
Howard M. Wachtel is Acting Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
at American University in Washington, DC. He did his dissertation on
Yugoslavia (where he lived in 1967–8), in association with Branko
Horvat in Belgrade at the Institute for Economic Sciences. The first of
his three books, Workers’ Management and Workers’ Wages in Yugoslavia
was followed by Labor and the Economy and The Money Mandarins. He
was a correspondent for the journal Economic Analysis and Workers’
Management throughout its existence and published many articles in
the journal. His work extends beyond the economies of central and eastern
Europe and encompasses labour studies, globalization and finance,
and the new global economy. He has published more than 30 articles in
leading academic journals, as well as in such media as the New York
Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, International Herald Tribune, The Guardian
(London) and Excelsior. He is a Fellow of the Transnational Institute
(Amsterdam) and has held visiting faculty appointments at the London
School of Economics, Cambridge University, the American University
in Paris, and Cornell University, and has lectured in many countries.
Benjamin Ward took his degrees at University of California at Berkeley.
He has taught at Stanford University, the Chinese University of Hong
Kong, and University of California at Berkeley, where he was until
his retirement in 1992. His main research interests were comparative