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Gabor Scheiring, PhD
Political Economist, Public Sociologist
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The national-populist mutation of neoliberalism
We know much about the mutation of neoliberalism in advanced economies. I show how this might happen in investment-dependent economies.

gaborscheiring
Feb 20, 20221 min read


Armchair Economics Defeated: How China Escaped Shock Therapy
My review of Isabella Weber's book, How China Escaped Shock Therapy, on the SASE blog.

gaborscheiring
Dec 14, 202113 min read


Neoliberal Capitalism and the Visegrad Countermovements
Our special issue—Neoliberal Capitalism and the Visegrad Countermovements—is finally out & complete.

gaborscheiring
Dec 3, 20211 min read


The social requisites of illiberalism
The world is facing a new wave of autocratization. This chapter reviews the social foundations of illiberalism.

gaborscheiring
Nov 30, 20211 min read


Neoliberal Capitalism and Visegrád Countermovements: introduction
This special issue analyzes the lived experience of postsocialist economic change and its relation to populism.

gaborscheiring
Nov 8, 20211 min read


From Socialist to Capitalist Walls
Taking Stock of Shock results from a massive interdisciplinary endeavor, a timely and crucial contribution to the debate on postsocialism.

gaborscheiring
Oct 11, 202112 min read


Varieties of Dependency, Varieties of Populism
The rise of populism has cast doubt on the sustainability of the marriage of liberal democracy and neoliberal capitalism.

gaborscheiring
Sep 22, 20211 min read


The Populist Radical Right and Health in Hungary
How do populists govern health? How are they handling covid19? We answer these questions by analyzing Viktor Orban's Hungary.

gaborscheiring
Sep 9, 20211 min read


The political economy of national-neoliberalism
Analyzing transformations in Romania & Hungary this article shows that neoliberalism is not over, just changing, leading to...

gaborscheiring
Aug 14, 20212 min read


The Mutation of Neoliberalism
In this contribution to ISRF Bulletin 24, I inquire into the nature of the specific form of national-populist neoliberalism that has...

gaborscheiring
Aug 11, 20219 min read


Populism in Hungary and Poland
Situations of Dependency, Mechanisms of Dependency Governance, and the Rise of Populism in Hungary and Poland Dependency theory is back!...

gaborscheiring
Aug 5, 20212 min read


Is Neoliberalism Finally Dead?
Few concepts have been declared dead and buried more often than neoliberalism. However, it continues to survive. Neoliberal Resilience,...

gaborscheiring
Jul 20, 202110 min read


The Socio-Economics of Illiberalism
My (slightly provocative) essay for SASE on how (not) to research illiberalism: The culture/economy dichotomy is artificial & unproductive.

gaborscheiring
Jun 17, 202113 min read


Illiberal Finance: Think Globally, Act Locally
How does the collusion of international finance & domestic oligarchy lead to illiberalism?

gaborscheiring
Jun 3, 20218 min read


The political economy of the post-socialist mortality crisis
The number of excess deaths could have been ca. 7.3 million in Eastern Europe in 1991-99. What explains the postsocialist mortality crisis?

gaborscheiring
May 7, 20218 min read


Deindustrialization and the Postsocialist Mortality Crisis
Abstract An unprecedented mortality crisis struck Eastern Europe during the transition from socialism to capitalism. Working-class men...

gaborscheiring
Apr 15, 20212 min read


The Socio-Economics of Health and Dying
This essay examines the multidisciplinary debate around what has recently been referred to as an epidemic of ‘deaths of despair.’...

gaborscheiring
Mar 26, 20219 min read


The National Populist Mutation Of Neoliberalism
Globalist neoliberalism, with its focus on human rights and multilateralism, is on the decline. However, its alternative is not a...

gaborscheiring
Feb 23, 20218 min read


Left Behind in the Hungarian Rustbelt
The article conceptualises Hungary's neo-nationalist turn as a Polanyian countermovement against globalisation and deindustrialisation.

gaborscheiring
Dec 17, 20201 min read


Privatization and the postsocialist fertility decline
Abstract The ten countries with the fastest shrinking population are all located in Eastern Europe, with low fertility as one of the...

gaborscheiring
Dec 11, 20201 min read


National Capitalism in Orbán's Hungary (Interview)
Behind the veneer of economic nationalism, Hungary is one of the breeding grounds of a new incarnation of neoliberalism.

gaborscheiring
Dec 8, 20201 min read


Deindustrialization and deaths of despair
Deindustrialization and deaths of despair: mapping the impact of industrial decline on ill health A growing literature on deaths of...

gaborscheiring
Dec 1, 20201 min read


Insights from Hungary to beat Trumpism
Three pitfalls from a Hungarian perspective that could hinder beating Trumpism after Trump vacates the White House. The official start of...

gaborscheiring
Nov 30, 20204 min read


Why Viktor Orbán took the EU hostage
Orbán is right to worry about EU funds becoming conditional on the rule of law. It threatens his whole socio-economic model The EU and...

gaborscheiring
Nov 20, 20206 min read
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