Die EU-Osterweiterung vor 20 Jahren markierte einen historischen Wendepunkt in Europa nach dem Fall der Berliner Mauer. Der Beitritt der zehn neuen Mitgliedsländer zur EU führte dort zu beeindruckendem wirtschaftlichen Wachstum, insbesondere in Polen, Tschechien und Slowenien. Die...

PRIESTS of PROSPERITY -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes on Nomenclature -- 1. E Pluribus Unum -- 2. Transplantation -- 3. Choosing Independence -- 4. The Transformation Campaign -- 5. The Politics of European Integration -- 6. The Trials of Post-Soviet Central Bankers -- 7. Paradise Lost --...

This book provides an overview of the evolution of distortions to agricultural incentives caused by price and trade policies in the economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) that are transitioning away from central planning. It includes country and sub-regional studies of the ten...

The argument -- Two villages -- The construction and the deconstruction of rural property -- The invention of social conflict -- The destruction and replacement of the elite -- The manipulation of lifestyles -- From the dependent peasant to the citizen-peasant : the bases of a rural political...