For about fifty years Marxist–Leninist political economy of socialism has been the supreme discipline of social science within the Soviet empire. Its development was by no means uncontroversial. So, it took till the early 1950s that together with the Stalinist economic system the doctrinal...

Written by leading east European scholars, this book provides a wide-ranging overview of fifty years of economic thinking under communist rule in Europe and during the first phase of post-communist economic transformation