Privatization Trends in Eastern Europe
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Overview
Economists Robert Ebel, Milton Friedman and Tom Hazlett discuss the economic and political shifts behind privatization in post-Soviet Eastern Europe. Their conversation unpacks how governments transitioned from centralized control to market economies and the challenges that followed.