Umfang:
1 online resource (281 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415697378
,
9780203123263
Serie:
Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Series
Inhalt:
This book constitutes an up-to-date treatment of Russia's economic development and economic policies since 2000, exploring how in spite of steep production decline, widening welfare differentials and increasing social uncertainty, the 1990s created many of the institutional and policy preconditions for a functioning market economy
Anmerkung:
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 -- 4.2 Political economy of Eurasian energy -- 4.3 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? -- 6.4 Income distribution -- 6.5 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
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Sutela, Pekka The Political Economy of Putin's Russia Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415697378
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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