Abstract
“Globalization Under and After Socialism: The Evolution of Transitional Capital in Central and Eastern Europe” is reviewed by Tuyen Pham. Roland Santos reviews “The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the”Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism.” Zachary T. Keeler reviews Advanced Manufacturing: The New American Innovation Policies.” “Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country” is reviewed by Erika Davis.
Highlights
Most believe that the post 1989-market reform policies were the main cause of economic reforms in socialist countries, but Besnik Pula argues a different theory, that the reform socialism in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1970s provided the origins for the transitional capitalism in 1990s
The book is well organized and leads readers through historical events and explains how each event played a role in this reform
Since duo-dependency made it hard to achieve industrial development, Comecon was introduced as an important framework for Central and Eastern Europe’s industrialization
Summary
Most believe that the post 1989-market reform policies were the main cause of economic reforms in socialist countries, but Besnik Pula argues a different theory, that the reform socialism in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1970s provided the origins for the transitional capitalism in 1990s. Pula explains why FDI became a dominant production network strategy in Eastern Europe in the 2000s and provides comparative statics to demonstrate how different flows of FDI to different countries, different export markets, and technology dependency led to significant divergences in the region’s patterns of integration.
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