Violetta Zentai
Violetta Zentai is Director at the Center for Policy Studies, Central European University.
Violetta Zentai, János Mátyás Kovács (eds)
Capitalism from Outside?
Economic Cultures in Eastern Europe after 1989
Does capitalism emerging in Eastern Europe need as solid ethnic or spiritual foundations as some other "Great Transformations" in the past? Apparently, one can become an actor of the new capitalist game without belonging to the German, Jewish, or, to take a timely example, Chinese minority. Nor does one have to go to a Protestant church every Sunday, repeat Confucian truisms when falling asleep, or study Adam Smith's teachings on the virtues of the market in a business course. He/she may just follow certain quasi-capitalist routines acquired during communism and import capitalist culture (more exactly, various capitalist cultures) in the form of down-to-earth cultural practices embedded in freshly borrowed economic and political institutions. Does capitalism come from outside? Why do then so many analysts talk about hybridization?
This volume offers empirical insights into the current cultural history of the Eastern European economies in three fields: entrepreneurship, state governance and economic science. The chapters are based on large case studies prepared in the framework of an eight-country research project (funded by the European Commission, and directed jointly by the Center for Public Policy at the Central European University and the Institute for Human Sciences) on East-West cultural encounters in the ex-communist economies.
Editors
János Mátyás Kovács
János Mátyás Kovács is Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna; Lecturer at the Department of Economics, Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest; External Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
- Title
- Capitalism from Outside?
- Subtitle
- Economic Cultures in Eastern Europe after 1989
- Price
- € 160,00
- ISBN
- 9786155211331
- Format
- Hardback
- Number of pages
- 362
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 10 - 06 - 2012
- Dimensions
- 15.9 x 23.4 cm
- Discipline
- Academic - History and Politics
- Imprint
- CEU Press
- Also available as
- eBook PDF - € 160,00
List of Tables
About DIOSCURI
Prologue: Going beyond Homo Sovieticus
János Mátyás Kovács and Violetta Zentai
Part 1. Entrepreneurship: Smooth Hybridization?
Repatriate Entrepreneurship in Serbia. Business Culture within Hauzmajstor
Vesna Vucinic-Neškovic
A Small Miracle without Foreign Investors. Villány Wine and Westernized Local Knowledge
Éva Kovács
From Local to International and Back. Privatizing Brewing Companies in Eastern Europe
Ildikó Erdei and Kamil Mareš
Reason, Charisma, and the Legacy of the Past. Czechs and Italians in Živnostenská Bank
Irena Kašparová
Managers as “Cultural Drivers”: Raiffeisen Bank in Croatia
Drago Cengic
The Rise of a Banking Empire in Central and Eastern Europe, Raiffeisen International
Violetta Zentai
Part 2. State Governance: Unilateral Adjustment?
Transmitting Western Norms. The SAPARD Program in Eastern Europe
Katalin Kovács and Petya Kabakchieva
Cloning or Hybridization? SAPARD in Romania
Florian Nitu
Caring Mother and Demanding Father. Cultural Encounters in a Rural Development Program in Bulgaria
Haralan Alexandrov and Rafael Chichek
Becoming European: Hard Lessons from Serbia. The Topola Rural Development Program
Mladen Lazic
Part 3. Economic Knowledge: Does Anything Go? Have Polish Economists Noticed New Institutionalism?
Jacek Kochanowicz
The Sinuous Path of New Institutional Economics in Bulgaria
Roumen Avramov
Soft Institutionalism: The Reception of New Institutional Economics in Croatia
Vojmir Franicevic
Institutionalism, the Economic Institutions of Capitalism, and the Romanian Economics Epistemic Community
Paul Dragos Aligica and Horia Paul Terpe
Beyond Basic Instinct? On the Reception of New Institutional Economics in Eastern Europe
János Mátyás Kovács
Epilogue: Defining the Indefinable: East–West Cultural Encounters
János Mátyás Kovács and Violetta Zentai
List of Contributors
Index
