Lost Opportunity: Why Economic Reforms in Russia Have Not Worked - Couverture rigide

Goldman, Marshall I.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0393037002 ISBN 13 : 9780393037005

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 1994

Synopsis

This text provides an analysis of the way in which Boris Yeltsin took on the task of reforming the Russian economy. It describes how the economy, beset by supply blockages that left goods scarce and prices high, lurched from one quick fix to another. Apparatchiks intent on becoming power brokers in the new state, profiteers and the notorious Russian mafia further exploited the confusion, opening the way for a strong showing of national extremists in recent elections. In contrast to the Russian experience, alternative lessons of history from the post-World War II revivals of Japan and Germany to the gradualist approach to a free economy in Hungary come under close review. In an incisive summing-up, the author shows the clash between economics and history that has dogged Russia throughout the centuries, from the October Revolution to the 1990s.

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À propos de l'auteur

Marshall I. Goldman (1930--2017) was associate director of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University and the author of several books on the Soviet Union and comparative economic systems.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393037002
• ISBN 13: 9780393037005
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible