Overview
- Assesses the evolution and current state of new comparative economics
- Brings perspectives from practitioner, governmental and policy standpoints
- Presents an overview of this topic in handbook form for the first time
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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legacy of comparative economic systems, which compared socialism and capitalism, a field which some argued should have been replaced by institutional economics after the fall of the Berlin Wall.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.
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Table of contents (36 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Evolution of the Field of Comparative Economics Systems
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Comparative Economic Systems in Economic History
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Post-Communist Transition
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative Economics
Editors: Elodie Douarin, Oleh Havrylyshyn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50888-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50887-6Published: 14 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50890-6Published: 14 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50888-3Published: 13 February 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLVI, 967
Number of Illustrations: 132 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Economy/Economic Systems, Development Economics, Institutional/Evolutionary Economics, Economic History, Economic Policy, Political Science and International Relations, general