Browsing HEC Working Papers by Subject "consumption"

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Title: A Good Buy – If You Can Get One. Purchasing cars under socialist conditions Author(s): GATEJEL, Luminita Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper gives a panoramic mapping of the infamous socialist ‘economy of shortages’ (Kornai) as it was lived and experienced by ordinary socialist citizens. It starts out by framing the general conditions under which ...
Title: The House that Market Socialism Built: Reform, Consumption and Inequality in Socialist Yugoslavia Author(s): LE NORMAND, Brigitte Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Scholars have argued that Eastern European socialist regimes found themselves forced to compete with the capitalist consumerist model showcased in West Germany in order to maintain their legitimacy in the eyes of the ...

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