Die Berliner Mauer stand noch, als die Transformation in Polen schon in vollem Gange war. Wie kam es, dass ausgerechnet das Land der Solidarność-Bewegung zum Vorreiter einer marktradikalen Schocktherapie wurde, die fast überall in östlichen Europa Nachahmer fand? Florian Peters erzählt, wie...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Note on the 2001 Edition -- Author's Acknowledgments -- The Hundred Years' Peace -- Conservative Twenties, Revolutionary Thirties -- ''Habitation versus Improvement'' -- Societies and Economic Systems -- Evolution of the Market Pattern -- The...

This unique book develops two different but related research agendas: the study of the spread of 'neoliberalism' - as seen from the perspective of Eastern European post-communist evolutions; and the study of Eastern European transition - as seen from an ideas-centred perspective. It challenges a...