Economic policy making and business culture : why is Russia so different?
Title:
Economic policy making and business culture : why is Russia so different?
Author:
Dyker, David A.
ISBN:
9781848167827
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
London : Imperial College Press, c2012.
Physical Description:
xiv, 317 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Historical Background -- The Autocratic Tradition of Governance -- The Service State -- Legislative Overkill -- Shifting Frontiers -- The Absence of Collective Responsibility in Government -- The Lack of a Strong Tradition of Contract and the Weakness of Corporate Law -- The Doctrine of the Third Rome -- Patronage/Clientelism -- Gate-Keeping -- The Embarrassment of History -- Serfdom as an Instrument of Human Resources Management -- The Perennial Problem of Backwardness and the Perennial Solution of Catching Up -- The Pattern of Extensive Development of Natural Resources -- The Beginnings of die Development of a Russian Creative, Scientific and Technological Elite -- The Role of the State in the Economy -- Self-Sufficiency -- Political and Economic Isolation -- The Environment for Foreign Direct Investment -- ch. 2 Communism -- The Revolution -- Organising the Socialist Economy -- Socialism in One Country --
Contents note continued: Russia and the World Economy in the 1920s and 1930s -- The Soviet System of Centralised, Command Planning -- The Ratchet Principle -- Incentives -- The Trouble with Targets -- How the Wheels Were Oiled -- The Special Problem of Investment -- The Special Problem of Agriculture -- The Khrushchev Reforms -- The 1965 Industrial Planning Reform -- The Failure of the 1965 Reform -- From Reform to Stagnation -- ch. 3 Perestroika -- Prelude -- Catching Up (Again): Uskorenie vs Perestroika -- The Foreign Trade Reforms of 1986-1987 -- Gorbachev on a Learning Curve -- Privatisation -- Perestroika in Crisis -- The Death of Perestroika --- The Political Dimension -- The Death of Perestroika --- The Economic Dimension -- Gorbachev's Last Throw of the Dice -- The Legacy of Perestroika -- ch. 4 Shock without Therapy -- Yeltsin's Challenges -- First Steps towards the Market Economy -- The Constitutional Crisis of 1993-1994 -- Renewed Attempts at Macro Stabilisation --
Contents note continued: The Crisis of 1998 -- And the Recovery of 1999-2000 -- Privatisation -- Structural Trends 1992-1999 -- The Reasons Behind Structural Sclerosis -- Patterns of Insider Behaviour in Russia in the 1990s -- The Political Economy noir of Russia in the 1990s: Fraud, Looting and Banditry -- How the Wheels Were Oiled -- The Yeltsin Era: An Assessment -- ch. 5 The Putin Era -- Putin Emerges -- The Boom Years -- Key Performance Factors 2000-2008 -- Regulatory Reform in Practice in the 2000s -- Competition policy -- Countering gate-keeping in the regions -- Property rights and corporate governance -- Financial reporting and accountancy standards -- IPRs -- Supervision of small companies -- Regulatory reform in the Putin era: a balance sheet -- Putin and the Exercise of Arbitrary Power -- YUKOS -- Sakhalin-2 -- TNK-BP -- Summing up the case-studies -- Lack of Collective Responsibility in Government -- The Next Step? --
Contents note continued: ch. 6 Russia and the International Economic Community -- Introduction -- Russia and the WTO -- Why join the WTO? -- The main elements in the Russian offer -- IPRs -- Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) -- The political economy behind the offer -- The stumbling blocks -- Agriculture -- Alcohol -- Export duties -- IPRs -- Bilateral issues -- Russia and the EU -- The Common European Economic Space -- The Energy Dialogue -- The Energy Charter -- Foreign Direct Investment -- Conclusions -- ch. 7 Russia and the `Near Abroad' -- Introduction -- Payments within the CIS -- The Influence of the Soviet Political Legacy on Intra-CIS Trade Policy -- Current Regional Trade Agreements -- CIS Free Trade Area -- CIS Customs Union -- Russia-Belarus Union -- Russia's Relations with Ukraine -- The Integration of Post-Soviet Economic Space --- What Does It all Signify? --
Contents note continued: ch. 8 Looking to the Future: State Capitalism, Innovation and the Knowledge Economy -- The Nature of the Problem -- The State of Russian Science Under Putin -- Educational Patterns -- The Putin Plan for `Innovation-Based Development' -- The Evolution of Russian State Capitalism in the Putin Era -- Does Putin's State Capitalism Work? -- Where Do Small Firms Fit in to all This? -- Can Putin's State Capitalism Be Rationalised? -- ch. 9 What does it all Mean for Outsiders? -- How Open Is the Russian Economy? -- How Difficult Is It to Do Business in Russia? -- How Far Can You Trust Your Russian Partners? -- Should You Do Deals with Russian Gate-Keepers? -- You Still Need a Roof -- The Problem of Supply Networking -- The New Privatisation Initiative -- Will Norms Ever Be Stable?.
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