This book aims to define comparative economics and to illustrate the breadth and depth of its contribution. It starts with an historiography of the field, arguing for a continued legacy of comparative economic systems, which compared socialism and capitalism, a field which some argued should have been replaced by institutional economics after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The process of transition to market capitalism is reviewed, and itself exemplifies a new combination of comparative analysis with a focus on institutional development. Going beyond, chapters broadening the application of…mehr
This book aims to define comparative economics and to illustrate the breadth and depth of its contribution. It starts with an historiography of the field, arguing for a continued legacy of comparative economic systems, which compared socialism and capitalism, a field which some argued should have been replaced by institutional economics after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The process of transition to market capitalism is reviewed, and itself exemplifies a new combination of comparative analysis with a focus on institutional development. Going beyond, chapters broadening the application of comparative analysis and applying it to new issues and approaches, including the role and definition of institutions, subjective wellbeing, inequality, populism, demography, and novel methodologies. Overall, comparative economics has evolved in the past 30 years, and remains a powerful approach for analyzing important issues.
Oleh Havrylyshyn, Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University, Canada, has a diverse career including Academia; Government (Deputy Minister of Finance, Ukraine); IMF senior official, advisor in many countries. His numerous writings on transition have been widely cited; the most recent Present at the Transition reflects personal insights on thirty years of post-communism. Elodie Douarin is Lecturer in Economics at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at UCL. She was the director of the Centre for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies from 2016 to 2019. She holds a PhD in Economics from Wye College (Imperial College), University of London, UK.
Inhaltsangabe
1 Introduction to the Palgrave Handbook of Comparative
Economics
Elodie Douarin and Oleh Havrylyshyn
Part I Evolution of the Field of Comparative
Economics Systems
2 A Historiography of Comparative Economics
Josef Brada
3 The Soviet Economic System: An Archival Re-evaluation
Paul R. Gregory
4 Institutions, Institutional Systems and Their Dynamics
Leszek Balcerowicz
5 The "New Comparative Economics": A Critical Review
Bruno Dallago and Sara Casagrande
Part II Comparative Economic Systems in Economic History
6 Comparative Economic History
Gerard Roland
7 The World's First Meritocracy Through the Lens of
Institutions and Cultural Persistence
James Kai-Sing Kung
8 Institutions Matter: But So Does History-A Comparison
of Mediaeval Dubrovnik with Other Dalmatian Cities
Oleh Havrylyshyn
9 Long-Run Inequality in Communist Countries: Before,
During and After
Filip Novokmet
10 Effect of Historical Forces on Liberalization and
Democratization in Transition
Simeon Djankov
Part III Post-Communist Transition
11 Thirty Years of Transition: Eleven Stylised Facts
Oleh Havrylyshyn
12 The Importance of Domestic Commitment
Anders Åslund
13 Political Economy of Transition Reforms
Sergei Guriev
14 The EU Anchor Thesis: Transition from Socialism,
Institutional Vacuum and Membership
in the European Union
Nauro F. Campos
15 Some Reflections on Transition: Its Roots, Complexity
of the Process, and Role of the IMF and Other
Organizations
Vito Tanzi
16 Are the Transition Economies Still in Transition?
Paul Wachtel
17 Institutional Change in Transition: An Evolving
Research Agenda
Elodie Douarin
Part IV New Comparative Economics: Growth and Formal
Institutions in a Globalised World
18 Institutions, Human Capital and Economic Growth
Luca J. Uberti and Carl Henrik Knutsen
19 Reform Design Matters: The Role of Structural Policy
Complementarities
Joaquim Oliveira-Martins and Bruno T. da Rocha
20 Democracy as a Driver of Post-Communist Economic
Development
Jan Fidrmuc
21 Economic Development, Transition, and New Structural
Economics
Justin Yifu Lin
Part V The "New" New Comparative Economics:
Broadening the Goals
22 Rethinking Development: Broadening the Goals
and Altering the Approach
Homi Kharas and John W. McArthur
23 Explaining the Heterogeneity of Health Outcomes in
Post-Communist Europe
Christopher J. Gerry
24 Building the Good Life: Growth, Reforms and Happiness
in Transition
Peter Sanfey
25 Growth and Subjective Well-Being in China
Robson Morgan and Fei Wang
26 Understanding Demographic Challenges of Transition
Through the China Lens
Lauren A. Johnston
Part VI Addressing New Issues by Comparative Analysis
27 Inequality and Well-Being in Transition: Linking
Experience and Perception to Policy Preferences
Alexandru Cojocaru
28 Authoritarian Populism in Comparative Perspective
Tomasz Mickiewicz
29 Does Emigration Affect Political and Institutional
Development in Migrants' Countries of Origin?
Artjoms Ivlevs
30 Understanding Tax Evasion: Combining the Public
Choice and New Institutionalist Perspectives
Klarita Gërxhani and Ronald Wintrobe
31 The Rules of the Game in Transition: How Informal
Institutions Work in South East Europe
Alena Ledeneva and Adnan Efendic
32 Entrepreneurship in Comparative Economics Perspective
Slavo Radosevic and Esin Yoruk
Part VII Methodologies for Comparative Analysis
33 Taxonomies and Typologies: Starting to Reframe
Economic Systems
Randolph Luca Bruno and Saul Estrin
34 Institutional Complementarities in Comparative
Capitalism: A Bibliometric Account
Francesca Gagliardi
35 The Challenge of Identification and the Value
of Descriptive Evidence
Ron P. Smith
36 Conclusion: So, What Is Comparative Economics Now?
