First the Transition, Then the Crash - Eastern Europe in the 2000s

Informationen zum Autor Gareth Dale is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Brunel University, England. He is the author of First the Transition, then the Crash (Pluto, 2011), Reconstructing Karl Polanyi (Pluto, 2016) and Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market (Polity, 2010). Klappentext The 1989-91 upheavals in Eastern Europe sparked a turbulent process of social and economic transition. Two decades on, with the global economic crisis of 2008-10, a new phase has begun. This book explores the scale and trajectory of the crisis through case studies of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and the former Yugoslavia. The contributors focus upon the relationships between geopolitics, the world economy and class restructuring. The book covers the changing relationship between business and states; foreign capital flows; financialisation and asset price bubbles; austerity and privatisation; and societal responses, in the form of reactionary populism and progressive social movements. Challenging neoliberal interpretations that envisage the transition as a process of unfolding liberty, the dialectic charted in these pages reveals uneven development, attenuated freedoms and social polarisation. Zusammenfassung Comprehensive survey of the economic crisis in Eastern Europe

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Gareth Dale, Gareth Dale, DALE GARETH
• Assisted by: Dr. Gareth Dale (Editor), Gareth Dale (Editor)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.09.2011
• EAN: 9780745331157
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3115-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Eastern Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Capitalism, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Politics & government, Political Economy, Economic systems & structures, Politics and government, Economic & financial crises & disasters, Economic and financial crises and disasters, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies