Philip Scranton is University Board of Governors Professor Emeritus, History of Industry and Technology, at Rutgers University, USA. He also directed the Hagley Museum & Library's research arm, the Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society, 1992-2012, with responsibility for a seminar series, twice-yearly conferences, grants-in-aid and annual fellowships in support of dissertation research and writing. His publications include fourteen books and seventy scholarly articles, multiple contributions to exhibit catalogs, and numerous reviews of books and conferences.

Preface: The Terrible Twelve: Core Tasks for Socialist and Capitalist Enterprises.-Introduction: Hungary as Site and Process: Geography, History, and Society to 1945.- Chapter 1: Postwar Reconstruction and Forced Industrialization, 1946-56.- Chapter 2: Socializing Agriculture, 1957-66.- Chapter 3: Construction: The Infrastructure Dilemma, 1957-1966.- Chapter 4: Commerce: Transactions Without and With Markets, 1957-1966.- Chapter 5: Manufacturing: Concretizing A Great Illusion, 1957-1966.- Chapter 6: The New Economic Mechanism and Bureaucratic Resistance: 1966-1972.- Conclusion: Never Quite Socialist?.- A Note on Sources.