Transformation of a totalitarian, basically administratively coordinated system into a democratic one that is coordinated predominantly by markets and competition has been triggered by, among others, the perception of a serious deficit in welfare and happiness. Public policy has a special task...

Transformation und EU-Integration entwickeln sich in Mittel- und Osteuropa parallel zueinander. Dieses Buch nimmt die wechselseitige Verknüpfung beider Prozesse in den Blick und geht folgenden Fragen nach: Wie gestaltet sich die Demokratisierung im Osten Europas? Welche Verflechtungen bestehen...

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