03536nam 22005175 450 991082133730332120220902220430.0963-386-351-110.1515/9789633863527(CKB)5590000000001822(MiAaPQ)EBC6342264(DE-B1597)633305(DE-B1597)9789633863527(OCoLC)1338019569(EXLCZ)99559000000000182220220729h20222020 fy 0engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAusterities and aspirations a comparative history of growth, consumption, and quality of life in East Central Europe since 1945 /Béla TomkaBudapest :Central European University Press,[2022]©20201 online resource (ix, 445 pages)963-386-352-X Frontmatter --Contents --Foreword --1 Introduction: Comparisons and the Triple Approach to Well-Being --2 Economic Growth: Catching Up and Falling Behind --3 Consumption: Structures, Practices, and Policies --4 Quality of Life: Towards a More Comprehensive Understanding of Well-Being --5 Determinants of Change: Accounting for Growth and Beyond --6 Passages to the New Millennium: The Evolving Order of Divisions --7 Conclusions: Lessons of the Triple Approach --Appendix --Notes --Bibliography --IndexThis monograph provides an analysis of the economic performance and living standard in Czechoslovakia and its successor states, Hungary, and Poland since 1945. The novelty of the book lies in its broad comparative perspective: it places East Central Europe in a wider European framework that underlines the themes of regional disparities and European commonalities. Going beyond the traditional growth paradigm, the author systematically studies the historical patterns of consumption, leisure, and quality of life—aspects that Tomka argues can best be considered in relation to one other. By adopting this “triple approach,” he undertakes a truly interdisciplinary research drawing from history, economics, sociology, and demography. As a result of Tomka’s three-pillar comparative analysis, the book makes a major contribution to the debates on the dynamics of economic growth in communist and postcommunist East Central Europe, on the socialist consumer culture along with its transformation after 1990, and on how the accounts on East Central Europe can be integrated into the emerging field of historical quality of life research.Economic developmentEurope, EasternHistory20th centuryPost-communismEurope, EasternHistory20th centuryQuality of lifeEurope, EasternHistory20th centuryEurope, EasternEconomic conditions1945-Europe, EasternHistory20th centuryEurope, EasternPolitics and government1945-Communism, Consumption, East and West, Economic development, Economic history, Postcommunism.Economic developmentHistoryPost-communismHistoryQuality of lifeHistory338.9437Tomka Bélaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1098233DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910821337303321Austerities and aspirations3917463UNINA