Contents: Steiner, Helmut: Vorwort. - Tamas, Pal: Introduction to three national reports: Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic. - Federowicz, Michail/Jasiecki, Krzysztof/Wesolowski, Wlodzimierz: The Business Elites of Poland. - Tamas, Pal: The Hungarian Business Elite: Behaviour, Business Culture,...

After the collapse of communism, political elites in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) implemented economic reforms that were largely inspired by the prevailing neoliberal paradigm. One of the consequences of these reforms was that the region's economies became very open to foreign direct...