This paper examines how people mobilize around notions of distributive justice, or ‘moral economies’, to make claims to resources, using the process of post-socialist land privatization in the Mekong Delta region of southern Vietnam as a case study. First, I argue that the region’s history of settlement, production and political struggle helped to entrench certain normative beliefs around lando...

Since the radical economic reforms initiated in the late 1970s, China, has been transformed from a stagnating socialist country into one of the world’s biggest economies. However, the ―invisible hand‖ of capitalism may not have succeeded in its magic without the 200 million workers who migrated from rural areas to the urbanized east coast. What are the implications of rural-to-urban migration o...

Over the last decade or so, there has been a renewed interest in the problems of economic calculation under socialism and a rethinking of the classic socialist calculation debate of the interwar era. A great deal of this work has been stimulated by Don Lavoie's (1985) reinterpretation of the debate that suggested a fundamental misunderstanding of the Austrian argument. In addition, the general ...

Bitcoin (BTC) is often cited as Libertarian. However, the technology underpinning Bitcoin, blockchain, has properties that make it ideally suited to Socialist paradigms. Current literature supports the Libertarian viewpoint by focusing on the ability of Bitcoin to bypass central authority and provide anonymity; rarely is there an examination of blockchain technology’s capacity for decentralised...

What is the future of comparative economics? This question has been with us since the collapse of the former communist regimes associated with “socialist centrally planned economies”. Various responses have been suggested in the literature during the postcommunist period of economic transformation and I will briefly sketch a few of them below (see section 1). But no one could imagine that a pos...

Abstract This paper theorizes how institutional conditions influence students’ entrepreneurship dynamics (e.g., nascent and active), especially these related to environments where students are mostly exposed university country), as well the moderation effect of type economy post-socialist marked-oriented). We tested our proposed theoretical model in a sample 91,105 from 557 European universitie...

P ar t 1 S tr uc tu ra l R ef or m s in th e M id dl e Ea st a nd N or th A fr ic a After more than twenty years of rapid economic growth, falling oil prices in the mid-1980s and an abrupt decline in investment and growth pushed Arab governments to rethink their basic frameworks for economic management (Page 1998; World Bank 1995).2 The post-independence Arab socialist period left virtually all...

T he world’s economic sphere has experienced significant changes in the past 40 years. The economies of the formerly socialist countries in central and eastern Europe, including Russia, underwent significant market reforms such as deregulation, privatization, and reinstatement of property rights toward establishing functioning market economies. Changes in the political economy of several countr...

Marriage and marriage migration are often downplayed in the migration literature. The role of location in the decisionmaking underlying marriage migration, and the relations between marriage and labor migration, are little understood. Research that focuses on international marriages and on Western or capitalist economies has highlighted marriage as a strategy, but little attention is given to d...