This introduction to the special issue outlines important anthropological insights into debt relations and of indebtedness drawing on my own research post-Soviet economies as well contributions this issue. deals with post-socialist that embarked similar economic paths after collapse communist regime.

This paper examines the importance of market institutions in the transition from communism to a market economy. Blanchard and Kremer’s (1997) developed a partial equilibrium model explaining how, in the presence of imperfect information and incomplete contracts, liberalization causes the “disorganization” of traditional producer-supplier relationships in post-socialist economies and contributes...

This paper aims to understand residential mobility in non-market economies by conducting a case study of Chinese cities, a socialist society in transition. It is argued that residential mobility in China is mainly triggered by changes in housing supply and housing qualification, both of which are determined by housing policies. Using a retrospective survey (1949–94) in 20 Chinese cities, it was...

Abstract After remodeling the economies of the Western world all along the 1980s, deindustrialization abruptly hit the former socialist countries in the early 1990s. Deindustrialization with destructuring meant the disintegration of the economic structure and industrial cities, and regions entered a downsizing spiral of population loss after the breakdown of traditional industries, outmigration...

Introduction This paper has two purposes. One is to examine the effect of soft budget constraints (SBC) on economies in transition from centralization to capitalism. The other is to survey our understanding of SBC more generally. Of course, this latter aim is also pertinent to the former. Current work on SBC follows in the tradition of the famous debate in the late 1930s and early 1940s on mark...

In 2021, responding to changes in the world political and economic situation basing itself on Marxist economy, New Marxian Economics Synthesis School led by Professor Enfu Cheng carried forward its traditions forged ahead into future. The school conducted active, in-depth research how uphold integrity of socialist economy with Chinese characteristics enrich it new elements, putting a series the...

Established migration theories are mostly based on capitalist market economies and downplay the role of institutions in internal migration and labor market processes. In socialist and transitional economies such as those in Russia and China, however, investigations of migration and the labor market must begin by examining the nature and consequences of state institutions. In this article, I arg...

This paper discusses both textual and structural legacies of socialism in Croatian popular music since the collapse of socialism and Yugoslavia. Yugoslav socialism struggled to reconcile socialist consciousness and capitalist consumerism, forcing the producers of popular culture to make sense of the political  eld that surrounded them and put ideology into practice. The structural conditions o...

We study the following problem: party A’s secret input is a, party B ’s secret input is b, and party C ’s input is empty; they want to know if a = b with restriction that A and B should not learn anything more than what is implied by their secret inputs and the comparison result, and C should not learn anything about a or b except if a = b. This problem can be seen as a variant of the socialist...

The far-reaching institutional change and societal transformation occurring in former state-socialist societies have attracted new social science interest in transition economies. This chapter reviews recent research on China, highlighting the theoretical arguments and findings of general interest to social scientists. The paper argues that a paradigm shift is taking place within research on Ch...