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The ideal-type presented in the first chapter was not meant to describe how the socialist economic system appeared and evolved, but to stress its most permanent features which transcended time and space. This chapter will show how it came into existence and extended to a relatively large number of countries.
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© 1999 Marie Lavigne
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Lavigne, M. (1999). History. In: The Economics of Transition. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27313-3_2
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