The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative Economics

1 Introduction to the Palgrave Handbook of Comparative

Economics

Elodie Douarin and Oleh Havrylyshyn

Part I Evolution of the Field of Comparative

Economics Systems

2 A Historiography of Comparative Economics

Josef Brada

3 The Soviet Economic System: An Archival Re-evaluation

Paul R. Gregory

4 Institutions, Institutional Systems and Their Dynamics

Leszek Balcerowicz

5 The "New Comparative Economics" A Critical Review

Bruno Dallago and Sara Casagrande

Part II Comparative Economic Systems in Economic History

6 Comparative Economic History

Gerard Roland

7 The World's First Meritocracy Through the Lens of

Institutions and Cultural Persistence

James Kai-Sing Kung

8 Institutions Matter: But So Does History-A Comparison

of Mediaeval Dubrovnik with Other Dalmatian Cities

Oleh Havrylyshyn

9 Long-Run Inequality in Communist Countries: Before,

During and After

Filip Novokmet

10 Effect of Historical Forces on Liberalization and

Democratization in Transition

Simeon Djankov

Part III Post-Communist Transition

11 Thirty Years of Transition: Eleven Stylised Facts

Oleh Havrylyshyn

12 The Importance of Domestic Commitment

Anders 彎lund

13 Political Economy of Transition Reforms

Sergei Guriev

14 The EU Anchor Thesis: Transition from Socialism,

Institutional Vacuum and Membership

in the European Union

Nauro F. Campos

15 Some Reflections on Transition: Its Roots, Complexity

of the Process, and Role of the IMF and Other

Organizations

Vito Tanzi

16 Are the Transition Economies Still in Transition?

Paul Wachtel

17 Institutional Change in Transition: An Evolving

Elodie Douarin

Part IV New Comparative Economics: Growth and Formal

Institutions in a Globalised World

18 Institutions, Human Capital and Economic Growth

Luca J. Uberti and Carl Henrik Knutsen

19 Reform Design Matters: The Role of Structural Policy

Complementarities

Joaquim Oliveira-Martins and Bruno T. da Rocha

20 Democracy as a Driver of Post-Communist Economic

Development

Jan Fidrmuc

21 Economic Development, Transition, and New Structural

Economics

Justin Yifu Lin

Part V The "New" New Comparative Economics:

Broadening the Goals

22 Rethinking Development: Broadening the Goals

and Altering the Approach

Homi Kharas and John W. McArthur

23 Explaining the Heterogeneity of Health Outcomes in

Post-Communist Europe

Christopher J. Gerry

24 Building the Good Life: Growth, Reforms and Happiness

in Transition

Peter Sanfey

25 Growth and Subjective Well-Being in China

Robson Morgan and Fei Wang

26 Understanding Demographic Challenges of Transition

Through the China Lens

Lauren A. Johnston

Part VI Addressing New Issues by Comparat