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Illiberal Finance: Think Globally, Act Locally
How does the collusion of international finance & domestic oligarchy lead to illiberalism?
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Gabor Scheiring, PhD
Political Economist, Public Sociologist
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gaborscheiring
- May 7, 2021
- 8 min
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
- Apr 15, 2021
- 2 min
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
- Mar 26, 2021
- 9 min
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
- Feb 23, 2021
- 8 min
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
- Dec 17, 2020
- 1 min
Left Behind in the Hungarian Rustbelt
The article conceptualises Hungary's neo-nationalist turn as a Polanyian countermovement against globalisation and deindustrialisation.
gaborscheiring
- Dec 11, 2020
- 1 min
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 8, 2020
- 1 min
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 1, 2020
- 1 min
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
- Nov 30, 2020
- 4 min
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 20, 2020
- 6 min
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 10, 2020
- 1 min
The Mayor of Budapest about my book and democracy
It's an absolute honor that the Mayor of Budapest, Karácsony Gergely joined my book forum to discuss the state of democracy in Hungary....
gaborscheiring
- Sep 8, 2020
- 4 min
Why businesses embrace populists and what to do about it: lessons from Hungary
Fighting populism requires recognising: globalisation contributed to enabling & stabilising illiberal populist regimes such as Orbán’s.
gaborscheiring
- Aug 28, 2020
- 10 min
Book out: The Retreat of Liberal Democracy
Transcending disciplinary boundaries, the book provides a fresh answer to a simple & profound question: why has liberal democracy retreated?
gaborscheiring
- Aug 21, 2020
- 1 min
From neoliberal disembedding to authoritarian re-embedding
Relying on Polanyi & Gramsci, the article analyses the socio-economic roots of illiberal populism in Hungary.
gaborscheiring
- Aug 5, 2020
- 20 min
The Political Economy of Coronavirus Responses in Hungary
How can we interpret the characteristic steps of the Hungarian government to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic?
gaborscheiring
- Aug 5, 2020
- 7 min
The slow extinction of the American working class
Death rates were strong predictors of the Trump Brexit votes. Rising working-class mortality signals both economic and democratic failure.
gaborscheiring
- Jun 19, 2020
- 4 min
Orbanomics and populist health crisis management in Hungary
The government’s responses to Covid-19 correspond to the logic of Orbanomics: capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich.
gaborscheiring
- Jun 19, 2020
- 1 min
Orbanomics: A polarising answer to the crisis of liberal dependent capitalism
This analysis explains the political-economic logic of Orbanomics.
gaborscheiring
- Apr 23, 2020
- 5 min
Health, inequality and democracy in the light of the Corona crisis
The health of people and the health of democracy are intertwined.
gaborscheiring
- Apr 22, 2020
- 2 min
Antibodies against Orbán and Salvini
What do Italy and Hungary reveal about the political-economic background of the coronavirus crisis? My article in the Italian weekly Left.
gaborscheiring
- Apr 18, 2020
- 1 min
The foundations of hybrid authoritarian state capitalism in Hungary
To understand the emergence, stability of Orbán's illiberal regime, this article digs into the contradictions of postsocialist liberalism.
gaborscheiring
- Mar 15, 2020
- 4 min
How the Western Sense of Superiority Can Cost Lives
The false Western sense of superiority endangers people.
gaborscheiring
- Jan 28, 2020
- 2 min
Analyzing the Health Impact of Economic Change
Non-technical summary of the Privatisation and Mortality project that analyzed the political economy of the postsocialist mortality crisis.
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