Comparative Economic Studies in Europe

Chapter 1: Introduction - European Comparative Economic Studies: Thirty Years After.- Part 1: Political Economy in Comparative Studies.- Chapter 2: The political economy of socialism revisited.- Chapter 3: The development of thinking on the Czechoslovak economic transformation.- Chapter 4: The hard budget constraint as the pillar of the economy.- Chapter 5: Illiberal and "inward-looking" drives: What fuels them ?.- Chapter 6: The political economy of sovereign wealth funds.- Part 2: Comparative Economics Still on the Tracks.- Chapter 7: European higher education: Challenges and achievement.- Chapter 8: Eurozone: Crisis, policies and reforms.- Chapter 9: Brexit: The lure of the neoliberal thought collective.- Chapter 10: The limits of Europe: Lessons from post-communist experience for the post-Brexit Union.- Chapter 11: Eurozone membership and foreign direct investment.- Chapter 12: Central Eastern European multinationals.- Chapter 13: Non-observed economy vs. shadow economy and informal employment in Poland: A range of mismatching estimates.- Chapter 14: The Yugoslav successor states: From self-management socialism to political capitalism.- Chapter 15: Is (post-communist) China becoming a dominant economic power in South East Asia?.- Chapter 16: The power of technology in the United States and China: A comparison.- Part 3: New Extensions of Comparative Economic Studies.- Chapter 17: Electronic commerce - Markets, competition, and social welfare:  A clash with history of economic thought.- Chapter 18: The economic determinants of the Olympics performance in Communist and post-Communist countries.- Chapter 19: Introducing hard budget constraints without restricting entrepreneurs - The role of voluntary agreements in UEFA's club licensing and financial fair play regulations.

Wladimir Andreff is Emeritus Professor in Economics at the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France and President of the Scientific Council at the Observatory of the Sports Economy, French Ministry for Sports. He is a former President of European Association for Comparative Economic Studies.