Institutions, Human Development and Economic Growth in Transition Economies

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2. Introduction

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3. Transformation, Decline and Unstable Growth

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   2. Transition to Market: A Long and Undefined Journey

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   3. The Great Transformation: Recession, Recovery and EU Conditionality

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4. Institutional Change and Varieties of Capitalism in Transition Economies

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   2. Institutional Change: Old and New Institutionalism

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   3. A Model of Institutional Change in Transition Economies

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   4. Varieties of Capitalism and Socio-Economic Models in Transition Economies

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5. The Capability Approach, Social Capital and Human Development in Transition Economies

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   2. Explaining Economic Development: Old and New Theories

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   3. Institutions, Human Development, Economic Growth

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   4. Origins of Development: Social Capital, the Middle Class and Democracy

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   5. Conclusion

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6. Back Matter

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This book analyses the development path of transition economies in European Countries and former Soviet Republics that have experienced the transformation from planned economies to market economies since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. It examines economic growth, institutional change and human development performance.

• capitalism
• development
• economic development
• economic growth
• growth
• transformation

• University Roma Tre, Italy

  Pasquale Tridico

PASQUALE TRIDICO is Assistant Professor at the University Roma Tre, Italy. Whilst studying for his PhD on transition economics, he was Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Sussex, UK, and at the University of Warsaw, Poland. He spent three years conducting post-doctoral research on a European Union project, working at Trinity College, Dublin, Newcastle University and Lancaster University. In the autumn of 2009 he was Visiting Research Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is external Research Associate at Trinity College, Dublin, and member of the EAEPE Council. He is currently Fulbright Scholar at New York University.

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