This book links political and economic sociology examining how postsocialist property changes are rooted in the socialist past and how they relate to the meaning and practices of transition states and their capacity for sustainable economic development. It raises the issue of the applicability...

My self and my own : one and the same? / Etienne Balibar -- The future of nationalist appropriation / Pheng Cheah -- Transnational topographies of power : beyond "The State" and "civil society" in the study of African politics / James G. Ferguson -- Mercantilism, federalism, and the market...

"Daniel McClure's book tracks the interaction between culture and economics during the transition from Keynesianism in the mid-1960s to the arrival of neoliberalism at the dawn of the 1980s. During those years, civil rights reforms and the opening of the workplace to people of color and women...

Introduction, adaptation and change : old problems, new approaches / Stephen K. Wegren and David J. O'Brien -- Adaptation of Russian agriculture to a market economy. Entrepreneurship and the Siberian peasant commune in late imperial Russia / Igor V. Volgine. The impact of land reform on the...

We use longitudinal methods and universal panel data on 30,000 initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage...

While a variety of studies analysed the benign effects of privatisation on firm performance under post-socialist transition using financial data very little is known about how the apparent productivity gains were achieved. This paper follows a weaving mill from 1998 to 1997 on its way of...

The debate on the privatization of enterprises in Eastern Europe often presumes that enterprises are still controlled by an identifiable entity called "the state". This, however, is no longer the case. Since the demise of tight central planning, the nominally state-owned enterprises are de facto...