LEADER 04206oam 2200505 450 001 9910484152103321 005 20230629234731.0 010 $a9783030482954 010 $a3-030-48295-2 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-48295-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000011585975 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-48295-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6404870 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011585975 100 $a20210506d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aComparative economic studies in Europe $ea thirty year review /$fWladimir Andreff, editor 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2021] 210 4$d©2021 215 $a1 online resource (XXVII, 455 p. 26 illus., 22 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aStudies in Economic Transition 311 1 $a3-030-48294-4 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction - European Comparative Economic Studies: Thirty Years After -- Part 1: Political Economy in Comparative Studies -- Chapter 2: The political economy of socialism revisited -- Chapter 3: The development of thinking on the Czechoslovak economic transformation -- Chapter 4: The hard budget constraint as the pillar of the economy -- Chapter 5: Illiberal and ?inward-looking? drives: What fuels them ? -- Chapter 6: The political economy of sovereign wealth funds -- Part 2: Comparative Economics Still on the Tracks -- Chapter 7: European higher education: Challenges and achievement -- Chapter 8: Eurozone: Crisis, policies and reforms -- Chapter 9: Brexit: The lure of the neoliberal thought collective -- Chapter 10: The limits of Europe: Lessons from post-communist experience for the post-Brexit Union -- Chapter 11: Eurozone membership and foreign direct investment -- Chapter 12: Central Eastern European multinationals -- Chapter 13: Non-observed economy vs. shadow economy and informal employment in Poland: A range of mismatching estimates -- Chapter 14: The Yugoslav successor states: From self-management socialism to political capitalism -- Chapter 15: Is (post-communist) China becoming a dominant economic power in South East Asia? -- Chapter 16: The power of technology in the United States and China: A comparison -- Part 3: New Extensions of Comparative Economic Studies -- Chapter 17: Electronic commerce - Markets, competition, and social welfare: A clash with history of economic thought -- Chapter 18: The economic determinants of the Olympics performance in Communist and post-Communist countries -- Chapter 19: Introducing hard budget constraints without restricting entrepreneurs - The role of voluntary agreements in UEFA?s club licensing and financial fair play regulations. 330 $aThis book is written in honor of Horst Brezinski and explores a wide and diverse range of topics related to comparative economic studies. Containing contributions from a number of former Presidents of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies, the chapters discuss the hard budget constraint, economic transformation in Central Eastern Europe, illiberal democracy, sovereign wealth fund, higher education, the euro, the shadow economy, multinational companies, and economic power. Additional attention is given to new areas of study such as the digital economy and sports economics. This book aims to examine comparative economies across a wide range of geographical areas including China, Hungary, the United Kingdom, Poland, and the United States and will be relevant to those interested in emerging and transition economies, the political economy, economic policy, and international relations. 410 0$aStudies in economic transition. 606 $aEconomic policy 606 $aEconomics$zEurope 606 $aLabour economics 615 0$aEconomic policy. 615 0$aEconomics 615 0$aLabour economics. 676 $a338.9 702 $aAndreff$b Wladimir 801 0$bCaPaEBR 801 1$bCaPaEBR 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484152103321 996 $aComparative economic studies in Europe$92847419 997 $aUNINA