Ion Pohoaţă is a Professor of Economics at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. His research interests cover sustainable development, institutional economics and economic epistemology.Andreea-Oana Iacobuță-Mihăiță is a Professor of Economics at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. Her research interests are related to economics of development, institutional economics, and well-being.

• 1. Capitalist culture of Eastern Europe.- 2. Money and the business cycle of the East.- 3. Geography matters. The past still "works" through institutions.- 4. Economic territorialisation in the East.- 5. Social harmony with variable geometry.- 6. Social tribute paid to the past.- 7. Nature free for export.- 8. Insidious nature-labour-capital complementarity.- 9. "Living tradition" vs. "dead tradition" in the language of Mill and Schumpeter.- 10. The specificity of the creative destruction in the East.

Ion Pohoaţă is a Professor of Economics at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. His research interests cover sustainable development, institutional economics and economic epistemology.Andreea-Oana Iacobuță-Mihăiță is a Professor of Economics at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. Her research interests are related to economics of development, institutional economics, and well-being.

• 1. Capitalist culture of Eastern Europe.- 2. Money and the business cycle of the East.- 3. Geography matters. The past still "works" through institutions.- 4. Economic territorialisation in the East.- 5. Social harmony with variable geometry.- 6. Social tribute paid to the past.- 7. Nature free for export.- 8. Insidious nature-labour-capital complementarity.- 9. "Living tradition" vs. "dead tradition" in the language of Mill and Schumpeter.- 10. The specificity of the creative destruction in the East.

Ion Pohoaţă is a Professor of Economics at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. His research interests cover sustainable development, institutional economics and economic epistemology.Andreea-Oana Iacobuță-Mihăiță is a Professor of Economics at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. Her research interests are related to economics of development, institutional economics, and well-being.

• 1. Capitalist culture of Eastern Europe.- 2. Money and the business cycle of the East.- 3. Geography matters. The past still "works" through institutions.- 4. Economic territorialisation in the East.- 5. Social harmony with variable geometry.- 6. Social tribute paid to the past.- 7. Nature free for export.- 8. Insidious nature-labour-capital complementarity.- 9. "Living tradition" vs. "dead tradition" in the language of Mill and Schumpeter.- 10. The specificity of the creative destruction in the East.