Reports intensive country studies conducted for a sample of ten countries – five historically socially planned and five predominantly market economies – for comparative analyses of socioeconomic‐political characteristics prior to privatization. Purpose was to discern if there were any...

Discusses the present‐day economic trans‐formation sponsored by the IMF in the direction of privatization in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Chooses as case study the Muslim CIS bloc as the perfect example of the fiasco of the prescriptions of structural transformation by the...

Purpose – The paper aims to present both the legal and illegal aspects of the market in antiquities, specifically cultural objects which are transported from source countries to countries where they are sold or auctioned. Design/methodology/approach – The paper starts by defining the concept...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on the connections between illegal drugs and the informal economy and consider this in the light of the increasing levels of global interconnectedness in recent decades. Design/methodology/approach – This is a review of the...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the potential of vulnerability studies of economic activities to study the relationship between organised crime and the economy and illustrate it by examples taken from a vulnerability study of the European waste management industry....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that knowledge in general, and knowledge of markets in particular, is ultimately a product of the researcher's paradigmatic approach to a multifaceted phenomenon and therefore it is as much an ethical, moral, social, ideological, and political...

The paper starts from the increasing spatial and functional fragmentation of value-added chains, global de-regulation and dis-embedding of “markets”, and interdependencies among the Net-based digital technologies. It develops a socio-economic setting with ubiquitous direct interdependencies...

Proposes and outlines a plan for the passage from the old state economy in Poland to a new most perfect regime of social markets based on conditions of general stable equilibrium conditions, something quite different from the prevailing capitalist markets in the West. Meanwhile the Polish...