Top

Published in:

2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

32. Central and Eastern Europe

Author : Peter Foldvari

Published in: An Economist’s Guide to Economic History

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Activate our intelligent search to find suitable subject content or patents.

search-config

AI-assisted search

Off

Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of the economic history of Central and Eastern Europe. The focus is initially placed on the region’s first round of modernisation, between 1850 and 1914. Subsequently, the chapter discusses the introduction of socialism and central planning after World War II and its implications for the region’s economic growth and development. A key feature explored is that this region is in many respects similar to Western Europe but remains significantly poorer.

Dont have a licence yet? Then find out more about our products and how to get one now:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 102.000 Bücher
über 537 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Automobil + Motoren
Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
Finance + Banking
Management + Führung
Marketing + Vertrieb
Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe
Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 67.000 Bücher
über 340 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Finance + Banking
Management + Führung
Marketing + Vertrieb
Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

previous chapter Western Europe

next chapter Sub-Saharan Africa

On the importance of pre-industrial urbanisation see De Long and Schleifer (1993) and Bosker et al. (2013).

Alesina, A., and N. Fuchs-Schuendeln. 2007. Good Bye Lenin (or Not?)—The Effect of Communism on People’s Preferences. American Economic Review 97 (4): 1507–1528.CrossRef

Allen, R.C. 2003. Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Berend, I.T. 1986. The Historical Evolution of Eastern Europe as a Region. International Organization 40 (2): 329–346.CrossRef

———. 2003. History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Boenisch, P., and L. Schneider. 2013. The Social Capital Legacy of Communism—Results from the Berlin Wall Experiment. European Journal of Political Economy 32: 391–411.CrossRef

Bolt, J., and J.L. van Zanden. 2014. The Maddison Project: Collaborative Research on Historical National Accounts. The Economic History Review 67 (3): 627–651.

Bosker, M., E. Buring, and J.L. Van Zanden. 2013. From Baghdad to London: Unravelling Urban Development in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, 800–1800. The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (4): 1418–1437.

De Long, J.B., and A. Shleifer. 1993. Princes and Merchants: European City Growth before the Industrial Revolution. Journal of Law and Economics 36 (2): 671–702.

Gerschenkron, A. 1962. Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective, a Book of Essays. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Harrison, M. 1993. Soviet Economic Growth since 1928: The Alternative Statistics of G. I. Khanin. Europe-Asia Studies 45 (1): 141–167.CrossRef

Katus, L. 1970. Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism 1867–1918. Studia Historica, 62: 35–127.

Kornai, J. 1986. The Soft Budget Constraint. Kyklos 39 (1): 3–30.CrossRef

Landes, D. 1998. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are so Rich and Some so Poor. New York, NY: Norton.

North, D. 1990. Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRef

Pistor, K., Y. Keinan, J. Kleinheisterkamp, and M.D. West. 2003. The Evolution of Corporate Law: A Cross-Country Comparison. Journal of International Economic Law 23 (4): 791–871.

Rosefielde, S. 1996. Stalinism in Post-communist Perspective: New Evidence on Killings, Forced Labour and Economic Growth in the 1930s. Europe—Asia Studies 48 (6): 959–987.CrossRef

Solow, R.M. 1956. A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 70 (1): 65–94.CrossRef

Szelenyi, B. 2004. The Dynamics of Urban Development: Towns in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Hungary. The American Historical Review 109 (2): 360–386.CrossRef

Szelenyi, I., and B. Szelenyi. 1994. Why Socialism Failed: Toward a Theory of System Breakdown—Causes of Disintegration of East European State Socialism. Theory and Society 23 (2): 211–231.

Szűcs, J. 1983. The Three Historical Regions of Europe: An Outline. Acta Historica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 29 (2/4): 131–184.

Topolski, J. 1981. Continuity and Discontinuity in the Development of the Feudal System in Eastern Europe. Journal of European Economic History 10 (2): 373–400.

Vonyo, T. 2017. War and Socialism: Why Eastern Europe Fell Behind Between 1950 and 1989. Economic History Review 70 (1): 248–270.CrossRef

Wallerstein, I. 1976. The Modern World-System, Vol. I.: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century. New York, NY: Academic Press.

Wandycz, P. 2001. The Price of Freedom: A History of East-Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present. 2nd ed. London: Routledge.

Williamson, O. 2000. The New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead. Journal of Economic Literature 38 (3): 596–613.

Title: Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Peter Foldvari
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: An Economist’s Guide to Economic History
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-96567-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-96568-0

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96568-0_32