Austerities and aspirations a comparative history of growth, consumption, and quality of life in East Central Europe since 1945 Tomka, Béla creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. hu 2020 2020 monographic eng remote 1 online resource. Cover -- Front matter -- Title page -- copyright page -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction: Comparisons and the Triple Approach to Well-Being -- 1.1 Economic Growth, Consumption, and Quality of Life in Comparative Research -- 1.2 The Aims and Scope of Research -- 1.3 Methods and Sources -- 1.4 The Structure of the Volume -- 2 Economic Growth: Catching Up and Falling Behind -- 2.1 Measuring Economic Output -- 2.2 Trends and Stages of Growth in Western Europe -- 2.3 Trajectories of Growth in East Central Europe -- 3 Consumption: Structures, Practices, and Policies 3.1 Changing Consumption Patterns in Western Europe -- 3.2 Consumption in Communist East Central Europe -- 4 Quality of Life: Towards a More Comprehensive Understanding of Well-Being -- 4.1 Conceptual and Methodological Issues -- 4.2 Trajectories of Well-Being in Western Europe -- 4.3 The Quality of Life in East Central Europe -- 5 Determinants of Change: Accounting for Growth and Beyond -- 5.1 Factors of Economic Growth -- 5.2 Determinants of the Quality of Life -- 5.3 Causes of Convergence and Divergence -- 6 Passages to the New Millennium: The Evolving Order of Divisions 6.1 Economic Growth in Western Europe at the Turn of the Millennium: Changes in the Quality of Life -- 6.2 East Central Europe after the Regime Change: Economic Transformation, Consumer Aspirations, and the Pursuit of Well-Being -- 7 Conclusions: Lessons of the Triple Approach -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover Béla Tomka. Electronic resource. Includes bibliographical references and index. ee----- Economic development Europe, Eastern History 20th century Quality of life Europe, Eastern History 20th century Post-communism Europe, Eastern History 20th century Europe, Eastern Economic conditions 1945- Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1945- Europe, Eastern History 20th century Since 1900 fast HC244 .T64546 2020 338.9437 Austerities and aspirations Tomka, Béla. New York : Central European University Press, 2020. (DLC) 2019058315 963386352X 9789633863527 9789633863510 2019058316 22573/ctv16dp3q3 JSTOR http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7829/j.ctv16f6cv5 NhCcYBP 191216 20210422112515.0 in00004436327