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A downloadable Encyclopedia of topics in Economics, studied in depth through the prism of post-Communist economies in transition
was made available here:

http://info.babylon.com/cgi-bin/template.cgi?id=2880

It is based on the "After the Rain - How the West Lost the East" and "A Macedonian Encounter" web site:

http://www.geocities.com/vaksam/guide.html

Download Sample Chapters from "After the Rain" by Sam Vaknin - here:

http://www.geocities.com/vaksam/atr.pdf

This is a series of articles written and published in 1996 - 2000 in
Macedonia's leading newspaper, "Nova Makedonija" in its section dedicated to
economy, "Ekonomija i Pazar", in "Makedonija Denes", in "Dnevnik", in the
Russian daily "Izvestia", in the Egyptian weekly "The Middle East Times", in
the Russian weekly "Argumenti i Fakti", in the Czech monthly "The New
Presence", in the "Central Europe Review"
http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html )
and in other periodicals.

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Ostensibly, the articles deal with the Macedonian, Russian, or Czech
economy and politics - and, they do.

Yet, these economic and political experiences are so generic and so
widespread, so varied and so concentrated -
that they really serve as an ideal laboratory.

Take Macedonia, for instance. It was established in 1991. It had to
withstand an embargo (a siege, actually), a collapse of its banking system,
a collapse of a series of pyramid savings schemes, an acute contraction of
its GDP and its industrial production, a yawning balance of payments
deficit, dangerously high unemployment, inter-ethnic tensions - and this is
a partial list.

However painful in human terms, this has transformed Macedonia into a
fascinating case study in the workings of the economic mind, of economic
principles and theories.

This series of articles (constantly expanded) explores this case
study in depth as well as issues related to other Balkan countries and
the Russian and the Czech economies.

I tried to remember the humans behind the figures and the tragedies behind
the numbers.

Still, the articles together make up for an introduction to the science of
Economy - more than to a practical, "how to", type of publication.



Related Links

http://info.babylon.com/cgi-bin/template.cgi?id=2880
A downloadable Encyclopedia of topics in Economics, studied in depth through the priosm of post-Communist economies in transition.

http://www.booklocker.com/bookpages/samvaknin02.html
The e-book version of "After the Rain - How the West Lost the East" - Sam Vaknin's anthology of articles regarding Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkan.

http://www.geocities.com/vaksam/guide.html
An anthology of 150 previously published articles and essays regarding the politics, economics, geopolitics and history of countries in CEE and SEE (Balkan).

http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html
The author archive of Sam Vaknin's column "Balkan Encounter" in "Central Europe Review".
Contains articles and essays regarding the politics, economics, geopolitics and history of countries in CEE and SEE (Balkan).

http://barnesandnoble.bfast.com/booklink/click?sourceid=481444&;ISBN=802385173X
The Barnes and Noble web page of "After the Rain - How the West Lost the East". Contains excerpts and readers' reviews.

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