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1 online resource (281 pages) |
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Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy |
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Routledge frontiers of political economy.
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Cover; The Political Economy of Putin's Russia; Copyright; Contents; List of tables; Preface; 1. Introduction: burden of the past; 1.1 The Soviet inheritance; 1.2 Russian transition; 1.3 What did V.V. Putin think?; 1.4 The burden of the past and Putin's years; 2. The Putin regime; 2.1 A soft kind of authoritarianism; 2.2 The Gref program and aftermath; 2.3 What kind of economy emerged?; 3. Economic growth; 3.1 How do economies grow?; 3.2 Russia: catching up or innovation; 3.3 The Russian growth pattern, 2000-07; 3.4 Approximating structural change; 4. Energy; 4.1 Not of oil and gas alone |
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4.2 Political economy of Eurasian energy4.3 Russian and EU dependence on energy; 4.4 Russia's changing energy geography; 4.5 Oil; 4.6 Gas; 4.7 The priority of energy efficiency; 4.8 A case of resource curse?; 5. Money, banking and monetary policy; 5.1 Soviet money; 5.2 1990s: markets without money?; 5.3 De-dollarization and re-monetization; 5.4 Monetary policy; 5.5 Banking and financial markets; 5.6 From crisis to financial center?; 6. Welfare; 6.1 Measuring production in the 1990s; 6.2 Why do Russians support the Putin regime?; 6.3 Did Russia become a welfare state? |
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6.4 Income distribution6.5 Happiness; 7. Epilogue: Russia's response to the 2008 crisis; 7.1 Was Russia prepared for the crisis?; 7.2 What was Russia's reaction to the crisis?; 7.3 A look into the future; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book constitutes an up-to-date treatment of Russia's economic development and economic policies since 2000, when Vladimir Putin became the President of Russia. After the slow decline and sudden collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia embarked upon a multi-faceted change. This included transition from central management to a market economy, from one-party rule to democracy, from multi-national empire to nation state, and from relative autarchy to opening up to the European and global communities. This book concentrates on economic change, exploring how in spite of steep production decline, wi |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-
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Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952- fast |
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Infrastructure (Economics) -- Russia (Federation) -- History
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Economic history
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Economic policy
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Infrastructure (Economics)
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Politics and government
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Russia (Federation) -- Economic policy -- 1991-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004892
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Russia (Federation) -- Economic conditions -- 1991-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004886
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Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006576
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Russia (Federation)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203123263 |
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0203123263 |
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