ESCP Europe

Combining a distinctive synthesis of the existing data about the spead of neoliberal economic ideas in Central and Eastern Europe with an analysis of the processes at work, the authors challenge a series of misunderstandings and myths about the spread of neoliberal economic ideas. The disputed topics include : the myth of an Eastern European rush to embrace the theories and ideas that may be considered the mark of "market fundamentalism" ; the notion that a harsh "neoliberal dogmatism" was somehow imposed on the region from outside ; the idea that the standardization and regimentation of economic thinking was a result of the spread of the Western way of doing economics ; and the belief that the Eastern Europeans passively embraced this uniformity and standardization due to pressure from the Westerners.