The post-2008 slowdown in economic convergence by countries of east central Europe towards the level of western Europe is interpreted with the help of a concept of dependent capitalism. Convergence appeared to be rapid up to that year, but then stalled, albeit with differing results depending on...

Thinking among professional economists on the post-1989 Czechoslovak transformation reflected ideas they had developed over the preceding decades. The repressive "normalisation" period, after reform attempts of the late 1960s, led to a division into generational groups. An older group of...