Economic policy making and business culture [[electronic resource] ] : why Is Russia so different? / / David A. Dyker

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778962803321
• Autore: Dyker David A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Imperial College Press, 2012
• ISBN: 1-280-34906-9; 9786613555229; 1-84816-783-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (332 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.947
• Soggetti: Russia (Federation) Economic conditions; 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface; CONTENTS; List of Tables; Chapter 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 the 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; Chapter 2 Communism; The Revolution; Organising the Socialist Economy; Socialism in One Country; Russia and the World Economy in the 1920's and 1930's; 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; Chapter 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; Chapter 4 Shock without Therapy; Yeltsin's Challenges; First Steps towards the Market Economy The Constitutional Crisis of 1993-1994; Renewed Attempts at Macro Stabilisation; 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 1990's; The Political Economy noir of Russia in the 1990's: Fraud, Looting and Banditry; How the Wheels Were Oiled; The Yeltsin Era: An Assessment; Chapter 5 The Putin Era; Putin Emerges; The Boom Years; Ky Performance Factors 2000-2008; Regulatory Reform in Practice in the 2000's; 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?; Chapter 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)
• Sommario/riassunto: The book addresses the fundamental problems in Russian society, and in Russia's relations with the rest of the world. Why do Russians tend to react differently from 'us' in given diplomatic or business situations? Why do they find the notion of a contract difficult to grasp? Why do they seem hostile to the principle of the level playing field? How do they see Russia's position within the globalised economy? In order to probe these issues, the author begins with a historical analysis, looking at the pattern of political and economic development since Tsarist times, always asking the questions: