
No business book on Romania as such, but Verdery's fieldwork on property restitution is a genuine Romania-specific study of how ownership was created from nothing, and Mungiu-Pippidi covers the anticorruption apparatus that now sets legal risk. The rest is the Central and Eastern European transition literature.
Written from Romanian fieldwork; how the planned economy behaved in practice.
Comparative transition account; Czech vouchers judged against other sequencing choices.
How returning land in Transylvania after communism created property rights.
Covers EU accession as the main driver of Romanian institutional change.
Includes the Czech voucher scheme written up by people who designed and criticised it.
How some societies get corruption under control while others stay corrupt.