The contributions compiled here examine the paths of transition followed by different countries in the Euro-Mediterranean arc in a comparative way. Some approaches focus their analyses on the dichotomy between “shock therapy” and gradualism; other authors basically attend to the different ways of understanding institutional continuity and the need to build markets, instead of expecting them to emerge through a drastic reduction in the role of the State. On the whole, this book aims to abound in the complexity of the transformations that generically designate the concepts of development and transition, terms often used and often misunderstood.

Seán Golden is a lecturer in East Asian Studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona; Director of the Centre for International and Intercultural Studies (UAB); Director of the Asian Programme of the CIDOB Foundation and advisor to Casa Àsia.

Max Spoor is a professor at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS, The Hague), Co-ordinator of the Centre for the Study of Transition and Development (CESTRAD) of the ISS, and special professor (in Economics of Development and Transition) at the CIDOB Foundation and the IBEI Foundation in Barcelona.

ISBN: 978-84-87072-60-4

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