Magyar and Madlovics’s The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes is an elaborate and comprehensive body-of-work which covers a lot of predominantly theoretical ground. The authors are introducing a plethora of new analytical concepts and tools, thus inviting us to think about the post-communist countries and their institutional and social contexts more authentically than we would if we were to use social and economic theories that have originated in western, liberal-democratic contexts. Since I am a political economist, my contribution to this symposium is predominantly concerned with Chapter 5 of the book, which is devoted to describing the functioning of the so-called post-communist relational economies. Key words: political economy, sociology, patron–client relations, informality, post-communism info:eu-repo/semantics/review Socio-economic review 20(2) Avlijaš, Sonja application/pdf 222586 bytes On Ba ́lint Magyar and Ba ́lint Madlovics’s The Anatomy of Post-communist Regimes—a conceptual framework, Budapest and New York: CEU Press, 2020 : Post-communist relational economies and the global political economy of late capitalism All rights reserved 2022 https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:30022 doi:10.1093/ser/mwac003 ISSN: 1475-1461 eng