Hybrid Patterns of Property Management in CEE and Their Potential Longer-term Consequences: How Many capitalisms
Abstrakt
In the consequence of the legal weakening of the category of state/collective ownership in favor of private ownership, (in the sense that state/collectively ownership has been too frequently privately exploited depending on individuals' social access and disrespect for the rule of law and ethical norms) economic exchanges in the post-socialist era stopped being clearly distinguishable along the lines of state/collective-private or group interest. The newly emerging post-socialist world has been characterized by a variety of crucial areas and mechanisms of murky exchanges which would be regarded as clearly illegal in the Euro-Atlantic context, but which in CEE substantially contributed to the "founding" of private capital and the speedy injection of it into the veins of the new free-market system under construction.
The illegal and unethical practices implemented in acquiring ownership may have long discredited the very concept of private ownership. These hybrid practices implemented in acquiring ownership may have long affected the very concept of private ownership and shape post-socialist entrepreneurship on the borderline of public and private spheres.