Summary
Today, by a number of measures, the ex-socialist economies of Central and Eastern Europe are among the most globalized in the world. This text argues that the origins of Central and Eastern Europe's heavily transnationalized economies should be sought in their socialist past and the efforts of reformers in the 1970s and 1980s to expand ties between domestic industry and transnational corporations (TNCs). The work's comparative-historical analysis examines the trajectories of six socialist and postsocialist economies, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.