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Janos Matyas Kovacs has been Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences since 1991. He is external research fellow at the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and teaches history of economic thought at the Eötvös Lorand University in Budapest. His research focuses on the history of economic and political ideas in Eastern Europe, the history of communist economies, and the political economy of emerging capitalism in Eastern Europe. His latest publications include Neue Kapitalismen in Osteuropa (2013); Beyond Basic Instinct? On the Reception of New Institutional Economics in Eastern Europe (2012); Capitalism from Outside? Economic Cultures in Eastern Europe after 1989 (2012, with Violetta Zentai); Importing Spiritual Capital. East-West Encounters and Capitalist Cultures in Eastern Europe after 1989 (2010).

Leonid Kosals is Visiting Professor at the Centre of Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto and Distinguished Professor of the Department of Sociology at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia (since 2004). His research interests include comparative transformation studies in Eastern Europe, shadow economy and police corruption, labour-management relations at industrial enterprise. Among his recent publications are Russia Between Chaos and Dictatorship (2012), Commercialization of Police and Shadow Economy: The Russian Case (2012, with A.Dubova) and The Russian Defence Industry Confronts the Market: Findings of a Longitudinal Study (2011, with AIzyumov).