Introduction: Ex occidente lux?
Rawls or Nozick? Hayek or Friedman? Thatcher or Palme? Liberalization or democratization? Free market or social market economy? Finlandization or "Deutschlandization"?-such questions as these may be misleading in a refined scholarly analysis of liberal thought. Nevertheless, they can provoke stimulating discussions at a conference about the prospects for liberalism in Eastern Europe held some months after the fall of the Wall. [...]
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