The Logic Of Economic Reform In Russia

Author : Jerry F. Hough
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0815798598

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The Logic of Economic Reform in Russia by Jerry F. Hough Pdf

This book examines the failure of economic reform in Russia since 1991, when Boris Yeltsin proclaimed his commitment to economic stabilization, privatization, and price liberalization. Optimism over Russia¡¯s market reforms vanished with the crash of August 1998, when the ruble lost over 70 percent of its value and banks defaulted on their debts and forward currency contracts. Contrary to Yeltsin¡¯s reform promises, the Russian economy of the 1990s more closely resembled a Soviet model than a market-driven one. The Logic of Economic Reform in Russia illuminates the general problems of establishing market economies in settings where the institutional system to support the market has not had decades to develop. Suggesting that corruption may be associated with growth in the early stages of capitalism, Jerry F. Hough argues that the disappointing results of Yeltsin¡¯s reform efforts were not the product of Russian culture or history, but the logical consequences of rational men responding to the incentive system created by economic reform.

Author : Lynn D. Nelson,Irina Y. Kuzes
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1563244799

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Radical Reform in Yeltsin's Russia by Lynn D. Nelson,Irina Y. Kuzes Pdf

Examining the political and organizational factors that have shaped Russian economic reforms since the demise of the USSR, the author of this text draws on a variety of sources that cover political transition, economic reform, and regional and federal structures and processes.

Author : James Leitzel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134802098

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Russian Economic Reform by James Leitzel Pdf

Transitions from socialism to capitalism are complex, both in theory and practice. Russian Economic Reform enables the reader to come to a much better understanding of these momentous changes, by providing a clear and accessible account of the major features of transition. It argues that attempts to portray the reform process is a disaster are misconceived, because they fail to take account of just how badly the pre-reform economy was doing. Many of the problems that are emerging now have their antecedents in the earlier economic system.

Author : Vladimir Mau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351667456

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Russia's Economy in an Epoch of Turbulence by Vladimir Mau Pdf

Over the course of the last thirty years post-communist Russia has either been struggling with crises, discussing the lessons learned from past crises, or attempting to trace the contours of future crises. Based on the author’s own experiences and his research over this long period, this book traces the logic of the development of the crises and the anti-crisis policies, and shows the continuity, or discontinuity, in determining particular solutions. It demonstrates how perceptions of the priorities for economic policy, and the problems of economic growth and the formation of a new model and its alternatives were formed and how they changed. It also outlines the evolution of ideas about the role of social politics and human capital sectors in addressing anti-crisis and modernization issues, and discusses the changing views on the institutional and structural priorities for Russia’s development. This is an important book on an economic subject of crucial global significance by a leading participant.

Author : Susan L. Shirk
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520912212

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The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China by Susan L. Shirk Pdf

In the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform, while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy. How did China succeed at economic market reform without changing communist rule? Susan Shirk shows that Chinese communist political institutions are more flexible and less centralized than their Soviet counterparts were. Shirk pioneers a rational choice institutional approach to analyze policy-making in a non-democratic authoritarian country and to explain the history of Chinese market reforms from 1979 to the present. Drawing on extensive interviews with high-level Chinese officials, she pieces together detailed histories of economic reform policy decisions and shows how the political logic of Chinese communist institutions shaped those decisions. Combining theoretical ambition with the flavor of on-the-ground policy-making in Beijing, this book is a major contribution to the study of reform in China and other communist countries.

Author : Jim Leitzel
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415125103

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Russian Economic Reform by Jim Leitzel Pdf

Focuses on the actual pre-reform conditions including the widerspread private, informal economic activity.

Author : Vladimir Mau,Irina Starodubrovskaia
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191529115

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The Challenge of Revolution by Vladimir Mau,Irina Starodubrovskaia Pdf

This volume provides an challenging and controversial explanation of the recent events in Russia. It examines the causes, processes, and consequences of Russia's recent political development. Drawing on, and criticizing the existing literature, the book also shows how the recent Russian experience casts light on general theories of revolution and comparative political developments. The transformation in Russia is usually compared with transformations in other post-communist countries. The authors argue that the Russian transformation should be explained in the logic of the great revolutions of the past such as the English Civil War, the French Revolution, and the Bolshevik Revolution. The difficulties and inconsistency of Russian reforms are usually explained as a result of mistakes made by reformers. This book argues, however, that these problems should be considered as a natural consequence of the 'weak state'. In revolution the weakness of state power is inevitable (resulting from social fragmentation, property rights transformation, changes in the interests of different social groups). Hence, the authors argue that most of the transitional problems in Russia were unavoidable. The authors go on to argue that revolutions are usually considered as rapid change made through violence. However, the spontaneous character of change in the situation of a weak state is a much more important feature of any revolution than violence. The book contains unique interviews with four leaders of the Russian transformation - Mikhail Gorbachev, Alexander Yakovlev, Yegor Gaidar, and Gennadii Burbulis - as well as the personal experience of the authors, who were deeply involved in the practical process of Russian transformation.

Author : Sergei Vasiliev
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Former Soviet Republics
ISBN : UOM:39015050730822

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Ten Years of Russian Economic Reform by Sergei Vasiliev Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Russia (Federation)
ISBN : OCLC:186670202

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Economic Reform in Russia : Social, Political and Institutional Aspects by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jerry F. Hough
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0815798598

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The Logic of Economic Reform in Russia by Jerry F. Hough Pdf

This book examines the failure of economic reform in Russia since 1991, when Boris Yeltsin proclaimed his commitment to economic stabilization, privatization, and price liberalization. Optimism over Russia¡¯s market reforms vanished with the crash of August 1998, when the ruble lost over 70 percent of its value and banks defaulted on their debts and forward currency contracts. Contrary to Yeltsin¡¯s reform promises, the Russian economy of the 1990s more closely resembled a Soviet model than a market-driven one. The Logic of Economic Reform in Russia illuminates the general problems of establishing market economies in settings where the institutional system to support the market has not had decades to develop. Suggesting that corruption may be associated with growth in the early stages of capitalism, Jerry F. Hough argues that the disappointing results of Yeltsin¡¯s reform efforts were not the product of Russian culture or history, but the logical consequences of rational men responding to the incentive system created by economic reform.

Author : Alan Smith
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Former Soviet republics
ISBN : 0815780257

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Challenges for Russian Economic Reform by Alan Smith Pdf

Challenges for Russian Economic Reform contains papers published by the Post-Soviet Business Forum at the Royal Institute of International Affairs that have been revised for this volume. The contributors, specialists in Russian economic affairs, examine the principal economic and institutional factors that have hindered transformation in Russia. The sheer size of the country has complicated the problem of exposing domestic producers to foreign competition and has weakened the ability of central authorities to control the regions. Economic stabilization has been hampered by the difficulties in establishing sound economic relations with the former Soviet republics.

Author : Jeffery Sachs,Katharina Pistor
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997-06-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021000505

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The Rule Of Law And Economic Reform In Russia by Jeffery Sachs,Katharina Pistor Pdf

This collection of essays examines how Russia's distinctive traditions of law-and lawlessness-are shaping the current struggle for economic reform in the country.

Author : Jeffery Sachs,Katharina Pistor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367318962

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The Rule of Law and Economic Reform in Russia by Jeffery Sachs,Katharina Pistor Pdf

What impact has Russia's chosen path of reform had on the development of law after the collapse of the communist regime? This collection of essays examines how Russia's distinctive traditions of law?and lawlessness?are shaping the current struggle for economic reform in the country. Nine renowned scholars, chosen from specialties in history, politi

Author : Clifford G. Gaddy,Barry William Ickes
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0815731116

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Russia's Virtual Economy by Clifford G. Gaddy,Barry William Ickes Pdf

Clifford Gaddy's and Barry Ickes' thesis-- that Russia's economy is based on illusion or pretense about nearly every important economic yardstick, including prices, sales, wages and budgets-- has forced broad recognition of the inadequacies of the intended market reform policies in Russia and provided a coherent framework for understanding how and why so much of Russia's economy has resisted reform.

Author : Weiying Zhang
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781939709615

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The Logic of the Market by Weiying Zhang Pdf

The Logic of the Market by Weiying Zhang—considered China’s “leading market liberal”—comprises his most influential essays on economics over the past three decades. First published in China in 2010, this revised edition contains three new essays, which offer those outside China a deeper understanding of the Chinese economy. “Market competition is a really just competition to create value for others... Only through this approach did the Western economy advance over the past 200 years. It is also the reason for China’s economic marvel over the past 30 years,” writes Weiying. Readers will appreciate Weiying’s ability to address both everyday economic issues and the questions that confront a nation’s leaders, not the least a nation seeking to escape mass poverty. The economic reforms and subsequent growth in China may be the most astonishing and hopeful event of our age. Weiying was among the leaders who set China on its path of change. Here he elucidates the pitfalls and the progress of economic reform, celebrating leaders who mixed sustained idealism with judicious compromise. Readers seeking to learn from China’s successes will find much of interest here. Weiying emphasizes the importance of entrepreneurs in the new China. He concludes, “The key for China, as the country with the world’s largest population, to return to being the largest economy lies in allowing the entrepreneurial spirit to develop the potential of the domestic market.” For that to happen, Weiying recommends that China continue to reduce the state-owned economy, lessen government control over the economy, and—over the next 30 years—emphasize political reform to build a constitutional democracy. His thinking is not limited to China. Some of these essays also focus on the global financial crisis—how Keynesian policies can only be effective for the short term and will bring long-term negative consequences. Weiying provides a unique perspective on his country’s market economy, implementation of economic policies, and the potential for Chinese economic development. “I hope that the logic of the market becomes every person’s ideal,” he writes. “That is my reason for writing this book.”