Add to ORKGAndrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman recently rendered a summary verdict on the post Soviet Russian transition experience finding that the Federation had become a normal country with the west's assistance, and predicting that it would liberalize and develop further like other successful nations of its type. This essay demonstrates that they are mistaken on the first count, and are likely to be wrong on the second too. It shows factually, and on the norms elaborated by Pareto, Arrow and Bergson that Russia is an abnormal political economy unlikely to democratize, westernize or embrace free enterprise any time soon
Currently Russia is one of the world\u27s developing countries that relies on outside world assistan...
The paper discusses how the Russian labor market has been evolving over two decades of the transitio...
The article addresses the socio-cultural and institutional problems of the innovative development of...
Shleifer and Treisman (2005) argue that Russia is a “normal country. ” Their benchmark for normalcy...
Russian political–economic development since the early 1990s has been described as one of initial li...
The new normal is a conceptual situation where economic and political agents are economically convin...
This paper seeks to explain, why Russian (and CIS) economic transformation was neither a shock thera...
The state remains as important to Russia's prospects as ever. This is so not only because, as in any...
In post-Soviet societies, liberalism has come to be perceived as contradictory to the rule of law an...
Transition from central planning to market is one of the most important events in modern economic hi...
On the basis of analysis of the transformations occurring in Russia following the collapse of Commu...
In this paper I argue that the collapse of the Russian economy in the wake of the abandonment of the...
Since the very beginning of Perestroika in the mid-1980s, the advocates of liberal reforms made litt...
Russia is Europe’s largest neighbor. How Russia develops is of consequence to the foreign policy of ...
In Western international relations theory, if not in the opinion of many of its inhabitants, Russia ...
Currently Russia is one of the world\u27s developing countries that relies on outside world assistan...
The paper discusses how the Russian labor market has been evolving over two decades of the transitio...
The article addresses the socio-cultural and institutional problems of the innovative development of...
Shleifer and Treisman (2005) argue that Russia is a “normal country. ” Their benchmark for normalcy...
Russian political–economic development since the early 1990s has been described as one of initial li...
The new normal is a conceptual situation where economic and political agents are economically convin...
This paper seeks to explain, why Russian (and CIS) economic transformation was neither a shock thera...
The state remains as important to Russia's prospects as ever. This is so not only because, as in any...
In post-Soviet societies, liberalism has come to be perceived as contradictory to the rule of law an...
Transition from central planning to market is one of the most important events in modern economic hi...
On the basis of analysis of the transformations occurring in Russia following the collapse of Commu...
In this paper I argue that the collapse of the Russian economy in the wake of the abandonment of the...
Since the very beginning of Perestroika in the mid-1980s, the advocates of liberal reforms made litt...
Russia is Europe’s largest neighbor. How Russia develops is of consequence to the foreign policy of ...
In Western international relations theory, if not in the opinion of many of its inhabitants, Russia ...
Currently Russia is one of the world\u27s developing countries that relies on outside world assistan...
The paper discusses how the Russian labor market has been evolving over two decades of the transitio...
The article addresses the socio-cultural and institutional problems of the innovative development of...