The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative Economics

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Handbook of Comparative Economics.- Part 1: Evolution of the Field of Comparative Economics Systems.- Chapter 2: A Historiography of Comparative Economics.- Chapter 3: The Soviet Economic System: An Archival Re-Evaluation.- Chapter 4: Institutions, Institutional Systems and their Dynamics.- Chapter 5: The "New Comparative Economics" - a Critical Review.- Part 2: Comparative Economic Systems in Economic History.- Chapter 6: Comparative Economic History.- Chapter 7: The World's First Meritocracy through the Lens of Institutions and Cultural Persistence.- Chapter 8: Institutions Matter - but so does History: A Comparison of Mediaeval Dubrovnik with other Dalmatian Cities.- Chapter 9: Long-run inequality in Communist Countries: Before, During, After.- Chapter 10: Effect of Historical Forces on liberalisation and democratisation in Transition.- Part 3: Post-Communist Transition.- Chapter 11: Thirty Years of Transition: Eleven Stylised Facts.- Chapter 12: The Importance of Domestic Commitment.- Chapter 13: Political Economy of Transition Reforms.- Chapter 14: The EU Anchor Thesis: Transition from Socialism, Institutional Vacuum and Membership in the European Union.- Chapter 15: Some Reflections on Transition: its Roots, its Complexity of the process, and Role of the IMF and other Organizations.- Chapter 16: Are the Transition Economies still in Transition?.- Chapter 17: Institutional Change in Transition: An Evolving Research Agenda.-Part 4: New Comparative Economics: Growth and formal institutions in a globalised world.- Chapter 18: Institutions, Human Capital and Economic Growth.- Chapter 19: Reform Design Matters: the Role of Structural Policies Complementarities.- Chapter 20: Democracy as a Driver of Post-Communist Economic Development.- Chapter 21: Economic Development, Transition and New Structural Economics.- Part 5: The "new"New Comparative Economics: broadening the goals.- Chapter 22: Rethinking Development: Broadening the Goals and Altering the Approach.- Chapter 23: Explaining the Heterogeneity of Health Outcomes in Post-Communist Europe.- Chapter 24: Building the Good Life: Growth, Reforms and Happiness in Transition.- Chapter 25: Growth and Subjective Wellbeing in China.- Chapter 26: Understanding Demographic Challenges of Transition through the China Lens.- Part 6: Addressing new issues by comparative analysis.- Chapter 27: Inequality and Wellbeing in Transition: linking experience and perception to policy preferences.- Chapter 28: Authoritarian Populism in Comparative Perspective.- Chapter 29: Does Emigration affect Political and Institutional Development in Migrants' Countries of Origin?.- Chapter 30: Understanding Tax Evasion: Combining the Public Choice and new Institutionalist Perspectives.- Chapter 31: The Rules of the Game in Transition:how Informal Institutions work in South East Europe.- Chapter 32: Entrepreneurship in Comparative Economics Perspective.- Part 7: Methodologies for comparative analysis.- Chapter 33: Taxonomies and Typologies: starting to Reframe Economic Systems.- Chapter 34: Institutional Complementarities in Comparative Capitalism: a Bibliometric Account.- Chapter 35: The Challenge of Identification and the Value of Descriptive Evidence.- Chapter 36: Conclusion: So what is the new Comparative Economics now?.