This book aims to define comparative economics and to illustrate the breadth and depth of its contribution. It starts with an historiography of the field, arguing for a continued legacy of comparative economic systems, which compared socialism and capitalism, a field which some argued should...

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Handbook of Comparative Economics -- Part 1: Evolution of the Field of Comparative Economics Systems -- Chapter 2: A Historiography of Comparative Economics -- Chapter 3: The Soviet Economic System: An Archival Re-Evaluation -- Chapter 4: Institutions,...

Through the prism of 'Nowa Huta', a landmark of socialist industrialization, Trappmann challenges the one-sided account of Poland as a successful transition case and reveals the ambivalent role of the European Union in economic restructuring. An exemplary, suggestive case of multi-level analysis...