Small Businesses Trickling Up in Central and Eastern Europe

Galen Hull's central argument — that small and micro enterprises drove post-communist economic growth more than top-down privatization did — is specific, testable, and grounded in original field research from a historically important moment. The problem is that everything after 2000, including EU accession and two decades of further regional development, lies outside its scope, limiting how much the conclusions hold today. This is a useful artifact for specialists in Eastern European economic history; general readers have little reason to seek it out.