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The Economist Book of the Week on 29th May 2010 was A Tale of Two Villages by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi. "A dramatic, thought-provoking and sometimes savagely funny account of one of the
toughest problems in Europe: the ingrained poverty of the Romanian countryside."
CEU Press launched Masterpieces of History - The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989, the sixth book in the Cold War Reader Series, on May 31 at the Open Society Archives. The volume, based on the ground-breaking research and documentation of the National Security Archive in Washington DC, contains crucial historical documents and is absolutely indispensable for understanding the end of the Cold War.
Prague Tales leads top ten of CEU Press sales after 2000. 2. Memoir of Hungary, 3. The 1956 Hungarian Revolution, 4. A Cardboard Castle, 5. Jewish Budapest, 6. A Biographical Dictionary, 7. Stalin – an Unknown Portrait , 8. Uprising in East Germany, 9. A Life under Russian Serfdom, 10. Russian Foreign Policy in Transition
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Banking Reform in Central Europe and the Former
Soviet Union
Edited by Jacek Rostowski
From Berlin to the Bering Strait, the business of banking
has sprung to life. This analysis considers the impact
of banking reform on macroeconomic stabilization and
the suitability of universal banks; the role of banking
regulation and the advantages of "narrow banks" during
transition; the cleaning up of bad debts; bank privatization;
and the reform of the payments system.
1995
240 pages
ISBN 978-1-85866-038-7 cloth $51.95/ £31.95
ISBN 978-1-85866-039-4 paperback $26.95/ £16.95
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