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„Проваленият“ икономически преход в България през погледа на посткомунистическите стопански елити
The “Failed” Economic Transition in Bulgaria through the Viewpoint of the Post-Communist Business Elites

Author(s): Georgeta Nazarska
Subject(s): History, Economy, National Economy, Micro-Economics, Marxist economics, Economic history, Ethnohistory, History of ideas, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), Financial Markets, Public Finances, Human Resources in Economy, Business Ethics, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Център за стопанско-исторически изследвания
Keywords: economic transition; Bulgaria; business elites; post-communism

Summary/Abstract: The article explores the economic transition in Bulgaria carried out in the 1990s through the evaluations given by the participants of its course and results. The study is based on a sociohistorical and socioanthropological approach, using data from recently conducted standardized interviews, focus groups, and surveys. A comparative analysis of the visions and explanations of members of (different segments of) the new economic and the new political elites is presented for the factors that hindered the Bulgarian economic transformation. The divergence of their assessments of the institutional, personal and socio-cultural barriers to economic growth and their unanimous opinion on the ‘failed’ transition is commented on.

  • Issue Year: IX/2024
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 281-291
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bulgarian
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