The New Russia - Transition Gone Awry (Hardcover)

"This admirable work has contributions from an impressive group of specialists who cover the topic comprehensively. Balanced, reasonable transitions in various economic sectors are urged persuasively and in some cases even eloquently. The book has the potential for making a significant impact."
--Ralph T. Fisher, Jr.,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This book delivers an unpopular message: the West has played a pivotal role in the Russian economic disaster of the 1990s. Western advisors, including the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Treasury, applied a narrow conception of economics that pushed Russia, after more than seventy years of communism, toward another failed utopia.
The twenty-six contributions to this book are divided into three parts: theory, evidence, and policy. Part One directly challenges orthodox economic theory for obscuring the necessary role of government in creating and sustaining a market system and features essays by three Nobel laureates in economics--Kenneth J. Arrow, Lawrence R. Klein, and James Tobin. Part Two describes the dimensions of the economic crisis in Russia and presents a Russian perspective on the failure of shock therapy. Part Three presents policy recommendations, with special attention given to improving the integrity and administrative competence of the Russian government.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2002
Editors:	Lawrence Klein • Marshall Pomer
Foreword by:	Mikhail Gorbachev
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages:	480
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-4127-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General
LSN:	0-8047-4127-1
Barcode:	9780804741279

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