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    Accidental Occidental: Economics and Culture of Transition in Mitteleuropa, the Baltic and the Balkan Area
    Accidental Occidental: Economics and Culture of Transition in Mitteleuropa, the Baltic and the Balkan Area
    Accidental Occidental: Economics and Culture of Transition in Mitteleuropa, the Baltic and the Balkan Area
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    Accidental Occidental: Economics and Culture of Transition in Mitteleuropa, the Baltic and the Balkan Area

    By Lajos Bokros

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    Besides providing a historical record of the long road from the economic agenda of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution to the present transition from communism, this book can be considered a staunch defense of market capitalism and liberal democracy. Any celebration of the current transition in Eastern Europe necessarily affirms the superiority of a market system over a non-market one and of a democratic system over a non-democratic one.
    The author does not deny the failures, shortcomings or imperfections of market economy and democracy. Nor does he take the survival of market capitalism and liberal democracy for granted. On the contrary, by highlighting the valiant and painful process of transition and attempting to understand its economics and culture, he seeks to contribute to the theoretical (academic) and practical (political) defense of Western civilization.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCentral European University Press
    Release dateJan 1, 2013
    ISBN9786155225369
    Accidental Occidental: Economics and Culture of Transition in Mitteleuropa, the Baltic and the Balkan Area
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    Lajos Bokros

    Lajos Bokros is a Member of the European Parliament, former Minister of Finance of Hungary, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Central European University, Budapest.

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