Chapter 1: Introduction -- European Comparative Economic Studies : Thirty Years After -- Part 1: Political Economy in Comparative Studies -- Chapter 2: The political economy of socialism revisited -- Chapter 3: The development of thinking on the Czechoslovak economic transformation -- Chapter 4: The hard budget constraint as the pillar of the economy -- Chapter 5: Illiberal and "inward-looking" drives: What fuels them ? -- Chapter 6: The political economy of sovereign wealth funds -- Part 2: Comparative Economics Still on the Tracks -- Chapter 7: European higher education: Challenges and achievement -- Chapter 8: Eurozone: Crisis, policies and reforms -- Chapter 9: Brexit: The lure of the neoliberal thought collective -- Chapter 10: The limits of Europe: Lessons from post-communist experience for the post-Brexit Union -- Chapter 11: Eurozone membership and foreign direct investment -- Chapter 12: Central Eastern European multinationals -- Chapter 13: Non-observed economy vs. shadow economy and informal employment in Poland: A range of mismatching estimates -- Chapter 14: The Yugoslav successor states: From self-management socialism to political capitalism -- Chapter 15: Is (post-communist) China becoming a dominant economic power in South East Asia? -- Chapter 16: The power of technology in the United States and China: A comparison -- Part 3: New Extensions of Comparative Economic Studies -- Chapter 17: Electronic commerce -- Markets, competition, and social welfare: A clash with history of economic thought -- Chapter 18: The economic determinants of the Olympics performance in Communist and post-Communist countries -- Chapter 19: Introducing hard budget constraints without restricting entrepreneurs -- The role of voluntary agreements in UEFA's club licensing and financial fair play regulations.