Analytical Framework for Understanding Economic Systems Elaboration of the Analytical Framework The Firm Intensive System: Economic Challenges and Agent Responses in US, EU, Japan The Firm Intensive System: Polity Functioning and National Accommodations in US, EU, Japan The State Intensive System: Past Polity of the Soviet Union and Allied Countries The State Intensive System: Economic Transitions Economic Systems in the Developing World: Regional Differences Economic Systems in the Developing World: Country Profiles Comparative Performance of Countries Relating to Different Economic Systems: A Social Accounting Approach Long Range Convergence and Displacements in Economic Development and Interactions Between Economic Systems References Appendix

SOLOMON I. COHEN is Professor of Economics at Erasmus University, The Netherlands, founder of the Foundation for Economic Research, Rotterdam, and regular advisor to UN, World Bank, and EU agencies on development issues and in field assignments. He obtained his BA from the University of Khartoum, and MA and Ph D from the Netherlands School of Economics.