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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765993103321

Autore

Leitzel Jim

Titolo

Russian economic reform / / Jim Leitzel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2005

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995

©1995

ISBN

1-134-80209-9

0-8213-2241-9

1-134-80210-2

9786613917492

1-283-60504-X

1-280-14384-3

0-203-97663-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Classificazione

BUS000000BUS069000

Disciplina

330.947

338.947

Soggetti

Post-communism - Economic aspects - Russia (Federation)

Russia (Federation) Economic policy 1991-

Soviet Union Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-184) and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; DEDICATION; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTETNS; PREFACE; Introduction; Chapter 1 Markets and plans; Chapter 2 Russian market activity; Chapter 3 Price liberalization and inflation; Chapter 4 Employment and unemployment; Chapter 5 Privatization; Chapter 6 Monopoly; Chapter 7 Income and living standards; Chapter 8 False hopes; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Questioning the attempts to portray the reform of the Russian economy as a disaster, Jim Leitzel maintains that these portrayals are misleading because they fail to take account of the many complexities of the transition. Perceptions about the pre-reform Russian economy are often inaccurate, primarily because the logic of a centrally planned



economy is so different from a capitalist one that familiar economic phenomena, such as inflation and unemployment, take unfamiliar forms. The resulting misconceptions about the starting point for Russian economic reform lead to an exaggeration of the cost