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we exchange students studied with Hungarian scholars, who provided us new ways to understand the world, even in such courses as American literature. We took part in large protests, visits to Roma villages, evenings in underground punk clubs, panicked discussions with our Education Abroad Program directors, and the general social life of young college students, who happened to arrive in a place of historic change. The language of our professors, who talked positively about markets, democracy, and freedom, surprised me. The American right wing had done so much to politicize these words and done such evil in Central America and elsewhere in their name. Our professors in the Karl Marx University of Economics sounded like Reagan robots. After returning to the United States and entering graduate school, I found myself drawn to trying to understand what I had experienced. What was socialism? What was capitalism? What had happened in 1989? This book is my current answer to these questions. During my dissertation research, I discovered that Hungarians had been calling for both markets and socialism since the 1950s. For those familiar with Hungary, such a discovery was not a surprise. Yet, i

Who reads Markets in the Name of Socialism : The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism?

Author

Bockman, Johanna.

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804775663

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Economics, Political Science

Updated

2026-03-24