Informal Economies in Post-Socialist Spaces [electronic resource] : Practices, Institutions and Networks /
Morris, Jeremy,1974-
Morris, J.editor.
Polese, A.editor.
Informed by in-depth case studies focusing on a wide spectrum of micro and macro post-socialist realities, this book demonstrates the multi-faceted nature of informality and suggests that it is a widely diffused phenomenon, used at all levels of a society and by both winners and losers of post-socialist transition.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Informed by in-depth case studies focusing on a wide spectrum of micro and macro post-socialist realities, this book demonstrates the multi-faceted nature of informality and suggests that it is a widely diffused phenomenon, used at all levels of a society and by both winners and losers of post-socialist transition.
Introduction: my name is legion : the resilience and endurance of informality beyond, or in spite of, the states / Abel Polese and Jeremy Morris -- Thinking informality and development writ large and small -- Evaluating the validity of the contrasting theoretical perspectives towards the informal economy in Ukraine / Colin Williams and Olga Onoschenko -- Institutional transformation and informality in Azerbaijan and Georgia / Huseyn Aliyev -- Fighting the shadows Lithuania's informal workers and the financial crisis / Ida Harboe Knudsen -- Formal crutches for broken sociality / Aet Annist -- Re-theorising informality : power, culture, kinship and history -- Field notes on informality's culture of ubiquity : recognition and symbolic power within informal economic practices in Kosovo / Anna Danielsson -- The importance of having tela : reproduction of informality in the democratization sector in Bosnia / Karla Koutkova -- Perception vs. practices : nepotism in small businesses in Bulgaria / Tanya Chavdarova -- The importance of personalized relationships in postsocialist rural Bulgaria : informality and the socioeconomic success of capitalist agricultural entrepreneurs / Christian Giordano -- Informal public sectors and welfare : state intervention or withdrawal? -- Informal payments for healthcare services in Lithuania and Ukraine / Tetiana Stepurko, Milena Pavlova, Irena Gryga, Liubove Murauskiene, Wim Groot -- Nuclear borders : informally negotiating the Chernobyl exclusion zone / Thom Davies -- Governing informal payments in healthcare : lessons from China / Jingqing Yang -- Informal economic practices within the Kyrgyz police (militsiia) / Liam OShea.
Industrial sociology.
Regional economics.
Spatial economics.
Economic sociology.
Russia—Politics and government.
Development economics.
Macroeconomics.
Sociology of Work.
Regional/Spatial Science.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
Russian and Post-Soviet Politics.
Development Economics.
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.