1st Edition
Market Economists Beyond the West The Agents of Peripheral Liberalism, 1970–2020
INTRODUCTION
Beyond Diffusionism. On the Agents of (Neo-)Liberalism in the (Semi-)Peripheries of the World Economy
Tobias Rupprecht
PART I The Circulation of Market Thought in Soviet-Style Economies
1 The Resilience of Liberal Economic Ideas and Their Contributions to Vietnam’s Market Reform in the 1980s
Tuong Vu and Pham Thi Hong Ha
2 From Marxist to Market Democrat. Su Shaozhi and the Eastern European Roots of Chinese Peripheral Liberalism
Tobias Rupprecht and Alice Trinkle
3 Workers into Partners. Market Socialist Experiments in Soviet Estonia and Their Links to Hungarian and Chinese Reforms, 1975–1988
Juhan Saharov
PART II From Market Socialism to Market Liberalism in Eastern Europe
4 Towards a ‘Real Functioning Market’. Czechoslovakia Between Socialism and Capitalism
Luboš Studený
5 Negotiating the Future of State Socialism. Liberals and Their Contenders in Hungary, 1980–1987
Benedek Pál
6 Between Self-Management and Authoritarianism. Polish Paths to Neoliberalism
Florian Peters
7 Critiques of Neoliberalism Versus Analyses of Postcommunism. The Transformation of Eastern Europe in the 1990s
Venelin Ganev
PART III The Revival of Market Liberalism in the Global South
8 Intellectual Origins of Market Reform Before Nigeria’s Neoliberal Turn
Sa’eed Husaini
9 ‘Neoliberalismo Criollo’. The Many Faces of the Chilean Model
Maximiliano Jara Barrera and George Payne
10 Latin American Business Elites. Intellectual Masterminds of Peripheral Neoliberalism
José Antonio Galindo Dominguez
11 Between Shock and Utopia. Peru’s Neoliberals Beyond the Washington Consensus
Stephan Gruber
12 ‘Every Nation and Its Modernity’. Economics and Society in Arab Liberal Thought
Meir Hatina
Biography
Tobias Rupprecht is a historian at Freie Universität Berlin and Universität zu Köln, focusing on the global history of socialism, post-socialism, and liberalism. His scholarship often connects Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Latin America. Key publications include 1989: A Global History of Eastern Europe, 2019 (co-authored with James Mark, Bogdan Iacob, and Ljubica Spaskovska), and Soviet Internationalism after Stalin. Interaction and Exchange between the Soviet Union and Latin America during the Cold War, 2015.
