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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.

6 books

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  1. What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?Katherine Verdery, 1996
  2. How Capitalism Was BuiltAnders Åslund, 2007
  3. The Vanishing HectareKatherine Verdery, 2003

Books 6

What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?
T2 What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?
Katherine Verdery · 1996 · Written from Romanian fieldwork; how the planned economy behaved in practice.
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How Capitalism Was Built
T2 How Capitalism Was Built
Anders Åslund · 2007 · Comparative transition account; Romania as the late, badly sequenced reformer.
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The Vanishing Hectare
T3 The Vanishing Hectare
Katherine Verdery · 2003 · Land restitution in Transylvania; a case study in manufacturing property rights.
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From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union
T3 From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union
Ivan T. Berend · 2009 · Covers EU accession as the main driver of Romanian institutional change.
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The Great Rebirth: Lessons from the Victory
T3 The Great Rebirth: Lessons from the Victory of Capitalism over Communism
Anders Åslund, Simeon Djankov · 2014 · Romania appears among the late, partial reformers; useful for why it lagged Poland.
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The Quest for Good Governance
T3 The Quest for Good Governance
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi · 2015 · Anticorruption theory built partly on Romania's DNA prosecutions.
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