Comparative economic studies in Europe : a thirty year review / Wladimir Andreff, editor.

This book is written in honor of Horst Brezinski and explores a wide and diverse range of topics related to comparative economic studies. Containing contributions from a number of former Presidents of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies, the chapters discuss the hard budget con...

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Other Authors: Andreff, Wladimir, 1946- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Series:Studies in economic transition,
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • European Comparative Economic Studies: Thirty Years After
  • Part 1: Political Economy in Comparative Studies
  • Chapter 2: The political economy of socialism revisited
  • Chapter 3: The development of thinking on the Czechoslovak economic transformation
  • Chapter 4: The hard budget constraint as the pillar of the economy
  • Chapter 5: Illiberal and "inward-looking" drives: What fuels them?
  • Chapter 6: The political economy of sovereign wealth funds
  • Part 2: Comparative Economics Still on the Tracks
  • Chapter 7: European higher education: Challenges and achievement
  • Chapter 8: Eurozone: Crisis, policies and reforms
  • Chapter 9: Brexit: The lure of the neoliberal thought collective
  • Chapter 10: The limits of Europe: Lessons from post-communist experience for the post-Brexit Union
  • Chapter 11: Eurozone membership and foreign direct investment
  • Chapter 12: Central Eastern European multinationals
  • Chapter 13: Non-observed economy vs. shadow economy and informal employment in Poland: A range of mismatching estimates
  • Chapter 14: The Yugoslav successor states: From self-management socialism to political capitalism
  • Chapter 15: Is (post-communist) China becoming a dominant economic power in South East Asia?
  • Chapter 16: The power of technology in the United States and China: A comparison
  • Part 3: New Extensions of Comparative Economic Studies
  • Chapter 17: Electronic commerce
  • Markets, competition, and social welfare: A clash with history of economic thought
  • Chapter 18: The economic determinants of the Olympics performance in Communist and post-Communist countries
  • Chapter 19: Introducing hard budget constraints without restricting entrepreneurs
  • The role of voluntary agreements in UEFA's club licensing and financial fair play regulations.