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,...