Accidental occidental : economics and culture of transition in Mitteleuropa, the Baltic and the Balkan area / Lajos Bokros.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bokros, Lajos.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-communism--Europe, Eastern.

Post-communism.

Europe, Eastern--Economic policy--1989-.

Europe, Eastern.

Europe, Eastern--Economic conditions--1989-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 192 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Economics and culture of transition in Mitteleuropa, the Baltic, and the Balkan Area

Place of Publication:

Budapest, Hungary ; New York : Central European University Press, c2013.

Summary:

Besides providing a historical record of the long road from the economic agenda of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution to the present transition from communism, this book can be considered a staunch defense of market capitalism and liberal democracy. Any celebration of the current transition in Eastern Europe necessarily affirms the superiority of a market system over a non-market one and of a democratic system over a non-democratic one. The author does not deny the failures, shortcomings or imperfections of market economy and democracy. Nor does he take the survival of market capitalism and liberal democracy for granted. On the contrary, by highlighting the valiant and painful process of transition and attempting to understand its economics and culture, he seeks to contribute to the theoretical (academic) and practical (political) defense of Western civilization.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

1. Communism as an Economic and Societal System in the Twentieth Century

2. Transition to Market and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe

3. Transition for the Twenty-First Century

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-003-71817-5

1-283-97013-9

615-5225-36-2

9781003718178

OCLC:

831679974

Publisher Number:

2027/heb32047 hdl