1. Introduction -- 2. There is a science of economics -- 3. Economics in the post-socialist century -- 4. Public choice after socialism -- 5. Post-socialist political economy -- 6. Economic science and cultural diversity -- 7. Economics as a public science -- 8. Economic theory in the post-revolutionary moment of the 1990s -- 9. Analysis, ideology and the events of 1989 -- 10. Socialism is dead but Leviathan lives on -- 11. Tacit presuppositions of political economy: implications for societies in transition -- 12. Asymmetrical reciprocity in market exchange: implications for economies in transition -- 13. Consumption without production: the impossible idyll of socialism -- 14. Structure-induced behaviour in markets and in politics.