Austerities and Aspirations : : A Comparative History of Growth, Consumption, and Quality of Life in East Central Europe since 1945 / / Béla Tomka.
This monograph provides an analysis of the economic performance and living standard in Czechoslovakia and its successor states, Hungary, and Poland since 1945. The novelty of the book lies in its broad comparative perspective: it places East Central Europe in a wider European framework that underlin...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (456 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction: Comparisons and the Triple Approach to Well-Being
- 2 Economic Growth: Catching Up and Falling Behind
- 3 Consumption: Structures, Practices, and Policies
- 4 Quality of Life: Towards a More Comprehensive Understanding of Well-Being
- 5 Determinants of Change: Accounting for Growth and Beyond
- 6 Passages to the New Millennium: The Evolving Order of Divisions
- 7 Conclusions: Lessons of the Triple Approach
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index