Shortage, fuzzy property and other dead ends in the anthropological analysis of (post)socialism

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 43-61

  Thelen, Tatjana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Eastern Europe; economy of shortage; fuzzy property; neo institutionalism; postsocialism; work relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953240414     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: 14603721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X10393436     Document Type: Article

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