Central and Eastern Europe
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The transition from planning to markets is the region's defining business event, and for most individual countries here the regional accounts are the only English-language source that goes into detail.
9 books · 1 people behind it
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- How Capitalism Was BuiltAnders Aslund, 2007
- Taking Stock of ShockKristen R. Ghodsee, Mitchell Orenstein, 2021
- The Socialist SystemJános Kornai, 1992
The people behind it 1
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Academics 1
Books 9
János Kornai · 1992 · What the region was transitioning out of, described by the economist who explained it best.
Gerard Roland · 2000 · The theory of sequencing: why gradualism beat shock therapy in some places.
Anders Aslund · 2007 · The comparative account of the transitions, country by country.
Ivan T. Berend · 2009 · Economic and social transformation of the region since 1973.
Kristen R. Ghodsee, Mitchell Orenstein · 2021 · The evidence on who actually gained and lost from the transition.
Ivan T. Berend · 1996 · Economic history of the planned era; explains the asset base that was privatised.
Anders Åslund, Simeon Djankov · 2014 · Country-by-country retrospectives by the people who ran the reforms; the single best reference.
Bálint Magyar · 2016 · A vocabulary for state capture that travels well beyond Hungary.
Marcin Piatkowski · 2018 · The region's biggest success explained; the benchmark against which the others are judged.