Varieties of Capitalism in Post-communist Countries

This book sets the experience of the transformations of post-communist countries in east-central Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States and Asia against the "varieties of capitalism" paradigm, using an approach based on institutional economics.

DAVID LANE is a senior research associate at the Faculty of Social and Political Studies at the University of Cambridge. MARTIN MYANT is a researcher at the Centre for Contemporary European Studies at the University of Paisley.

PART 1: INTRODUCTORY: 'VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM' AND POST-COMMUNISM * What do we Mean by 'Varieties of Capitalism'?--D.Lane * Emerging Varieties of Capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe--M.Knell & M.Srholec * PART 2: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE * Czech Republic--M.Myant * Poland and Ukraine--V.Mykhnenko * Estonia and Slovenia--C.Buchen * Eastern Germany--R.Schmidt * Post-Yugoslav Balkans--W.Bartlett * PART 3: COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES * Russia--D.Lane * Old and New Oligarchs in Russia--P.Hanson & E.Teague * Belarus--J.Korosteleva * Georgia--B.Christophe * PART 4: ASIA * Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan--K.Charman * China--J.Wilson * PART 5: CONCLUSION * The Future of Capitalism in Post-Communist Countries--D.Lane & M.Myant PART 1: INTRODUCTORY: 'VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM' AND POST-COMMUNISM * What do we Mean by 'Varieties of Capitalism'?--D.Lane * Emerging Varieties of Capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe--M.Knell & M.Srholec * PART 2: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE * Czech Republic--M.Myant * Poland and Ukraine--V.Mykhnenko * Estonia and Slovenia--C.Buchen * Eastern Germany--R.Schmidt * Post-Yugoslav Balkans--W.Bartlett * PART 3: COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES * Russia--D.Lane * Old and New Oligarchs in Russia--P.Hanson & E.Teague * Belarus--J.Korosteleva * Georgia--B.Christophe * PART 4: ASIA * Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan--K.Charman * China--J.Wilson * PART 5: CONCLUSION * The Future of Capitalism in Post-Communist Countries--D.Lane & M.Myant