Based on empirical research, the paper investigates two segments of the Hungarian economic elite: multipositionals - who hold three or more positions - and the leaders of transnational companies. It investigates the social characteristics and income chances of the two groups; income chances are...

Based on empirical research, the paper investigates two segments of the Hungarian economic elite: multipositionals - who hold three or more positions - and the leaders of transnational companies. It investigates the social characteristics and income chances of the two groups; income chances are...

Are entrepreneurs in rural areas of Russia and the Ukraine any different from their urban based counterparts? What are the implications of the distinctiveness of rural entrepreneurship upon the institutional setting - given the weakness of the State? We focus upon the experience of rural areas...

In this paper we address the two following questions: (1) what are the major sources of real exchange rate fluctuations in developing countries? (2) do economic policy makers have room to face possible real exchange rate fluctuations? To answer these questions, we estimate a structural VAR model...

This paper traces the links between post-socialist transformations and the degrowth movement. Based on a series of workshops entitled "Degrowth Enthusiasm and the Eastern Blues" that we organised in recent years, this paper focuses on the following questions: what can we learn from the...

Are entrepreneurs in rural areas of Russia and the Ukraine any different from their urban based counterparts? What are the implications of the distinctiveness of rural entrepreneurship upon the institutional setting - given the weakness of the State? We focus upon the experience of rural areas...

This paper traces the links between post-socialist transformations and the degrowth movement. Based on a series of workshops entitled "Degrowth Enthusiasm and the Eastern Blues" that we organised in recent years, this paper focuses on the following questions: what can we learn from the...

This paper is showing that Serbia in the nineties was an interesting case of postsocialist transformation in spite of the greatly blocked transition. The key sign of the post-socialist transformation has been the formation of a new transformative social force – formation of entrepreneurs and...