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This volume presents articles by Iván Szelényi - William Graham Sumner Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Yale University since 50 years. The world has changed a lot in this half century. When the first contribution to this volume was published in 1969, Hungary was the "goulash communism" of János Kádár. Its disintegration began in the 1980s and in 1989/90 transitioned into "market capitalism" that looked like a bourgeois-liberal democracy. Fi...

Surveying Putin 's Russia and contemporary China, this volume theorized forms of capitalism that emerge in post-communist societies.

This book intends to be a contribution to the varieties of capitalism paradigm. Our main question is to what extent the present system in Russia, the model of President Putin is a generic model for all post-communist capitalisms.

“This is an original account of two of the most important social trends today: rising income inequality and declining class mobility.  Underlining the contemporary relevance of classical economics and sociology, the authors show how rent-seeking has created a new elite that threatens democracy and entrenches an upper middle class, where economic advantage is passed from one generation to the next. This is social science in the grand tradition ...

About 90 percent of the population of the UAE are guest workers. The critical research question for the study was: is it sustainable to build a nation with 90 percent who are not-nationals and have no legal channels to become citizens of the country where they spend occasionally a substantial part of their life?

Among the East European nations, Hungary has been noted in recent years for permitting, even encouraging, family entrepreneurship in agriculture. In this highly empirical study, Ivan Szelenyi and his collaborators explore this phenomenon, affording a rare view of the reemergence of private sector activity in a socialist society, and offering new insights into the very origins of capitalism. In the years since the government relaxed its policy ...

This book offers an overview of reforms in state socialist agrarian systems during the 1970s and 1980s in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. This experience is contrasted to reforms in China, Vietnam and Cuba.