The Fidesz-led government in Hungary and the Law and Justice-led government in Poland have shared important similarities since assuming power in the last decade, from party ideology to selective engagement with collective bargaining institutions. Yet, their approach to the welfare state has...

Biographical note: GalbraithJohn Kenneth: John Kenneth Galbraith was Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Harvard University. James Goodman is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University.

Decades before beer brewing transformed into a truly global industry toward the end of the nineteenth century, Central Europe - primarily the Habsburg monarchy and the German states - emerged as a sort of laboratory in which networks were forged, new inventions tested, new beer sorts copied, and...