1st Edition
Accidental Occidental Economics and Culture of Transition in Mitteleuropa, the Baltic and the Balkan Area
By Lajos Bokros
Copyright 2013
204 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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... Read more
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
Biography
Lajos Bokros is a Member of the European Parliament, former Minister of Finance of Hungary, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Central European University, Budapest.
