Till Hilmar is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna and a faculty fellow at Yale University’s Center for Cultural Sociology.
Deserved is the first attempt to propose a full-fledged theory of perception of economic justice in the field of memory studies. The evidence Hilmar has collected from East-Central Europe is interesting, and the book will resonate with the growing interest in economic aspects of social memory. His concept of 'moral deservingness' will become a useful tool for studying perception of other instances of economic changes. -- Joanna Wawrzyniak, author of <i>Memory and Change in Europe: Eastern Perspectives</i>