Organisers of transition trajectories event call for papers

According to the organisers of the Eastern Transition Trajectories event, taking place in Grenoble, France on 10 to 11 December 1999, there are now fewer success stories of economic transition than failures.

Furthermore, special attention should be paid to the interpretation of results, because they reveal the weakness of mainstream economic theory in conceiving the influence of society on economic structures and patterns of behaviour. This problem can be found in both development and transition models.

The event will discuss these problems and the organisers are calling for papers in the following five areas:

- Transition typologies and policies;
- History, culture and patterns of economic behaviour;
- Diffusion of innovation in norms of behaviour;
- Irreversibilities, thresholds and pawl effects;
- Strategies of firms and differentiation in transition.

Representatives from the European Commission, DG 1A and the Council of Europe will be present during the event.
For further information, please contact:

Groupe Transistion Développement
Espace Europe
Université Pierre Mendès France Grenoble II
BP 47
F-38040 Grenoble Cedex 09
Fax. +33-4-74825946
E-mail: Andrei.Tretyak@upmf-grenoble.fr