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Europe since 1989 : A History /
The year 1989 brought the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. It was also the year that the economic theories of Reagan, Thatcher, and the Chicago School achieved global dominance. And it was these neoliberal ideas that largely determined the course of the politi...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ; 1 Introduction ; On the Road to 1989 ; Postrevolutionary Europe ; Neoliberalism on the Rise ; Europe in Transformation ; 2 Where the East Meets the West: Crisis and Reform Debates in the 1980s ; The Demise of State Socialism.
- An Alternative Reading of the Cold War The Neoliberal Turn in East and West ; 3 The Revolutions of 1989-91 ; Milestones of the Revolutions ; Causes of the Revolutions ; Centers and Agents of Revolution ; The "Negotiated" Revolution ; 4 Getting on the Neoliberal Bandwagon.
- Milestones of the Transformation The Bumpy Road of Reforms in Eastern Europe ; Neoliberalism's Inherent Problems ; A Typology of Reform Outcomes ; 5 Second-Wave Neoliberalism ; Neoliberalism at Full Speed ; Flat Tax Systems and Populism ; Human Capital ; New Wealth.
- Rich Cities, Poor Regions The EU's Marshall Plan for the East ; 6 Capital Cities Compared ; Chalk and Cheese? Or Why We Should Compare ; The Situation before 1989 ; Transformation from Below ; The New Business Boom ; Poor Berlin ; Boomtown Warsaw.
- Metropolitan Convergence, or Why the East Looks like the West 7 The Great Recession: 2008-9 and Its Consequences ; The End of Economic Convergence? ; Variations of Crises ; Predatory Lending in Central and Eastern Europe ; Political Reactions: Between Neoliberalism and Authoritarianism.