Economic Transition in Historical Perspective

CHARLES MICHAEL ANDRES CLARK St John's University, USA. JANINA ROSICKA Jagiellonian University, Poland.

• Preface 1 Plato on Topos, Economy and Transition 2 Karl Polanyi's Great Transformation and the Current Transformations in Central Europe 3 On Building up a Market Society: Lessons from the Wealth of Nations and The Great Transformation 4 Groundwork for an Institutional Economic Approach to Transition': Smith and Polanyi Reconsidered 5 The Money Fiction and Central Banking 6 Labour: A Fictitious Commodity Needs Instituted Power 7 Three Paths to Capitalism: An Agenda for Research 8 Friedrich von Hayek's Idea of Spontaneous Social Order and Transforming the Socialist Economy 9 Worldly Advice from Other-Worldly Philosophers: Catholic Social Thought and the Problem of Economic Transition 10 The Promotion of National Prosperity: The Case of Industrial Activities in Portugal in the Transition to Liberalism