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Theorizing Transition provides a comprehensive examination of the economic, political, social and cultural transformations in post-Communist countries and an important critique of transition theory and policy. The authors create the basis of a theoretical understanding of transition in terms of a political economy of capitalist development.
The diversity of forms and complexities of transition are examined through a wide range of examples from post-Soviet countries and comparative studies from countries such as Vietnam and China. Theorizing Transition challenges many of the comfortable assumptions unleashed by the euphoria of democratisation and the triumphalism of market capitalism in the early 1990s and shows transition to be much more complex than mainstream theory suggests.
Twenty contributions examine the economic, political, social, and cultural transformations in Central and Eastern Europe, and create a basis for a theoretical understanding of transition in terms of a political economy of capitalist development. The authors are geographers, economists, sociologists, feminists, planners, and other scholars of international studies. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Alfredo Ramos
reviewed Theorising Transition: The Political Economy of Post-Communist Transformations on May 11, 2019
Theorising Transition: The Political Economy of Post-Communist Transformations
Economic history can be fascinating when written by using economic theory to illuminate the past. But there is another way of writing it and this book is an example. This approach simply collects data and piles it up willy nilly in the hope that something will emerge. Thus, we have a table (p. 183) which shows Irish merchandise exports to the UK in various years
1929 - 92%
1938 - 93%
1950 - 88%
1960 - 75%
1970 - 62%
1980 - 43%
1985 - 33%
This is followed immediately by the following text
"In the 1920s over 90 per cent of merchandise exports went to the UK and the proportion remained at a similar level until the mid-1950s. Since then Ireland's dependence on the British market has fallen progressively. By 1972, the year before EEC entry, the share of exports going to Britain had fallen to 61 per cent, and thereafter the share fell even more rapidly to 33 per cent in 1985"
All of which we can see just by looking at the column of numbers above.
The first half of this book is a decent enough summary of Irish economic history from the First World War to the doldrums of the mid-1980s. The second half is thematic and is a deadly dull data dump which does little to enlighten.
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