The neoliberal revolution in eastern Europe : economic ideas in the transition from communism / Paul Dragos Aligica, Anthony J. Evans

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Published by Edward Elgar - 2009

Library: London

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CONTENTS: pt. I. The spread of western economic ideas in Eastern Europe : an overview -- 1. Economic ideas : demarcations and schools of thought -- 2. Western economic ideas and the fragile hegemony of Marxism : the pre-1989 setting -- 3. The remarkable path to primacy of Western economic ideas : change and institutionalization after 1989 -- pt. II. Frameworks for analyzing and understanding the spread of economic ideas -- 4. Frameworks for analysis and interpretation : diffusion, marketplace of ideas and growth of knowledge -- 5. Frameworks for analysis and interpretation : from personal commitment to functional rationality -- pt. III. Facets, themes and cases : diversity and change in the neoliberal revolution of ideas -- 6. A test of market fundamentalism : Austrian economics -- 7. Western economics and local responses : a closer look -- 8. The flat tax in Eastern Europe : a comparative perspective -- 9. Neoclassical economics, new institutionalism and the Eastern European economic reform experience

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