Chris Hann is a recognized anthropological expert on socialist societies, as well as on Karl Polanyi’s theory of economy embedded in social relations. In this book he applies this double knowledge to a study of the neoliberal postsocialist social formation that has emerged in the last three decades in the region of Polanyi’s origin. This repatriation of his ideas brings first-rate, critical interpretation of the processes currently unfolding in Central and Eastern Europe.
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