Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Hungary and the EU in the Political and Scholarly Imagination -- 1. The 2004 Hungarian Paprika Ban -- 2. The 2008 Foie Gras Boycott -- 3. The 2010 Red Mud Spill -- 4. Neoliberalism,...

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Concepts -- 1. Market and Plan: Typology of Plan Models -- 2. The Classical Plan: Stalinplan -- 3. The Neoclassical Plan: Conservative and Liberal -- 4....

Karl Polanyi's "substantivist" critique of market society has renewed topicality in the era of neoliberal globalization. Polanyi (1886-1964) is popular among critical theorists and radical political economists, but also with ecological activists, anti-globalization campaigners and all who sense...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Prologue -- Rationality and Holocaust: Self- financing Genocide -- Legend and Reality: The Story of Kurt Becher -- The Story of the Hungarian Jewish Gold Train -- Appendix -- List of...

This book traces and analyzes the legislation and implementation of pension reforms in four Central, Eastern and Southeastern European countries: Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia. By comparing the political economy of their policymaking processes, it seeks to pinpoint regularities between...

Intro -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: An Institutional Approach to Eastern Europe's Transition -- 1. Party and State Institutions in Dual Transformations -- Part 2: Economic Reform in Communist Hungary, 1979−89 -- 2. Macroeconomic Stabilization...

Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- List of Graphs -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword and overview -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The background -- 1.2 (Another) delimitation of the subject -- 1.3 Managerial power and the bogey of spontaneous privatisation...