LEADER 03536nam 22005175 450 001 9910795613703321 005 20220902220430.0 010 $a963-386-351-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9789633863527 035 $a(CKB)5590000000001822 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6342264 035 $a(DE-B1597)633305 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789633863527 035 $a(OCoLC)1338019569 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000001822 100 $a20220729h20222020 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAusterities and aspirations $ea comparative history of growth, consumption, and quality of life in East Central Europe since 1945 /$fBéla Tomka 210 1$aBudapest :$cCentral European University Press,$d[2022] 210 4$d©2020 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 445 pages) 311 1 $a963-386-352-X 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tForeword --$t1 Introduction: Comparisons and the Triple Approach to Well-Being --$t2 Economic Growth: Catching Up and Falling Behind --$t3 Consumption: Structures, Practices, and Policies --$t4 Quality of Life: Towards a More Comprehensive Understanding of Well-Being --$t5 Determinants of Change: Accounting for Growth and Beyond --$t6 Passages to the New Millennium: The Evolving Order of Divisions --$t7 Conclusions: Lessons of the Triple Approach --$tAppendix --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aEconomic development$zEurope, Eastern$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPost-communism$zEurope, Eastern$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aQuality of life$zEurope, Eastern$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aEurope, Eastern$xEconomic conditions$y1945- 607 $aEurope, Eastern$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aEurope, Eastern$xPolitics and government$y1945- 610 $aCommunism, Consumption, East and West, Economic development, Economic history, Postcommunism. 615 0$aEconomic development$xHistory 615 0$aPost-communism$xHistory 615 0$aQuality of life$xHistory 676 $a338.9437 700 $aTomka$b Béla$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01098233 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795613703321 996 $aAusterities and aspirations$93734042 997 $aUNINA