Worldwide experience highlights public finance policies that promote economic growth while meeting the need for fundamental public goods. The Eastern European and Central Asia countries pioneered flat income taxes without generally suffering revenue losses as a result, but they …
Foreign subsidiaries of multinational companies are suggested as one of the main channels of technology transfer to less developed economies. In Central East Europe their presence proved to be a decisive factor to economic restructuring and development. This volume is a unique g…
Now in its tenth edition, Comparative International Accounting by Nobes and Parker is renowned for its depth of discussion and comprehensive coverage of the international dimensions of financial accounting and reporting. It uncovers the conceptual and contextual foundations of t…
This text considers the effects of state socialism on seemingly mundane aspects of life. Taking as its premise the notion that material culture can help explain the experience of state socialism as lived by ordinary people, it provides a revealing window through which to examine…
This fascinating book explains the processes of suburbanization in the context of post-socialist societies transitioning from one system of socio-spatial order to another. Case studies of seven Central and Eastern Europe city regions illuminate growth patterns and key conditions…
This work examines democratic party competition in four post-communist polities in the mid-1990s, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. Legacies of pre-communist rule turn out to play as much a role in accounting for differences as the institutional differences inco…
Language and nationalism in Europe
This work examines the role of language in the present and past creation of social, cultural and national identities in Europe. It considers the way in which language may sometimes reinforce national identity (as in England) while tending to subvert the nation-state (as in the U…