THE POLITICAL ANTIECONOMY OF TRANSFORMATIONS IN CEE COUNTRIES

Transformations in CEE countries traditionally are studied in the framework of methodological indi-vidualism. As a result, the scope of economic analysis is reduced to the development of the private sector. Thereby, part of economic reality, namely the public sector, is excluded from economic reality. The holistic approach allows to overcome this shortcoming. Holistically perceived transforma-tions encompass the whole economy – both the private and the public sectors. Furthermore, it opens the possibility to widen the scope of investigations by introducing the negative side of transforma-tions in economy as a whole. Conceptualization of this side allows formulating the concept of anti-economy. Introduction of this concept and the extension, development of the political economy tradition give the opportunity to speak about a new direction of scientific explorations – politica