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Author: Stephen J. Macekura
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-09-06
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1316515885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers cutting-edge perspectives on how international development has shaped the global history of the modern world.
Author: CAITLIN. FINLAYSON
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Published: 2019
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter B. Maggs
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-04
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 0429716206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the past, Soviet policymakers, planners, and jurists, in their enthusiasm for economic and technological development, devoted little attention to the often negative consequences of modernization. New concerns, however, have become apparent in recent literature, statutes, and decrees. In this book, political scientists and experts on Soviet law address many of those concerns, analyzing the legal issues associated with economic modernization in the USSR. The central themes of the book are the increasingly centralized nature of the policymaking process in the USSR and Eastern Europe and the marked tendency to rely on law as a principal mechanism for managing the undesirable consequences of scientific and technological progress. The authors also assess the impact of the scientific-technical revolution on Soviet-East European relations and East-West relations, emphasizing the foreign policy consequences of increased financial and technological interdependence. The study does not deal with narrow legalistic issues of technical progress; rather, its focus on policy questions reflects the inclination of Soviet and Eastern European governments to view those questions in terms of law and legislative activity and to see law as an instrument of social engineering.
Author: Stephen Lovell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2009-07-23
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 0199238480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking a fresh approach to the study of the Soviet Union, this Very Short Introduction blends political history with an investigation into Soviet society and culture from 1917 to 1991. Stephen Lovell examines aspects of patriotism, political violence, poverty, and ideology, and provides answers to some of the big questions about the Soviet experience. Throughout, the book takes a refreshing thematic approach to the Soviet Union and provides an up-to-date consideration of the Soviet Union's impact and what we have learnt since its end.
Author: Raymond E. Zickel
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 1182
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mauro L. Baranzini
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-04-30
Total Pages: 521
ISBN-13: 1107079098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew approach to the economic theory of resources, showing the positive role that scarcities can play in triggering economic growth.
Author: Diane P. Koenker
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Published: 2011-03-01
Total Pages: 836
ISBN-13: 9781780393803
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rudolf Schlesinger
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780415178150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 66
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe transformation of the Soviet economy is bound to be extraordinarily complex and will take many years to complete. Three closely related areas require action at the outset of the process: macroeconomic stabilization, including fiscal, monetary, trade and payments, and incomes policies; price reform in an environment of increased domestic and external competition; and ownership reform, involving the rapid privatization of retail trade and small enterprises, along with the commercialization of large, state-owned enterprises. Many measures are needed to support policy actions in these three areas. A social safety net will be needed to protect the most vulnerable from the short-term adverse consequences of the reform process. Other measures include completion of the legal framework for a market economy, the creation of a market system for banking and finance, the demonopolization and restructuring of many enterprises, the reconstruction of the transport and communications infrastructure, the development of a system of labor relations, the process of privatization of state enterprises and collective farms, and the addressing of serious environmental problems. These and other issues, and the close relationships between them, are discussed in this study.
Author: Michael Alexeev
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-06-04
Total Pages: 864
ISBN-13: 0199344132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy 1999, Russia's economy was growing at almost 7% per year, and by 2008 reached 11th place in the world GDP rankings. Russia is now the world's second largest producer and exporter of oil, the largest producer and exporter of natural gas, and as a result has the third largest stock of foreign exchange reserves in the world, behind only China and Japan. But while this impressive economic growth has raised the average standard of living and put a number of wealthy Russians on the Forbes billionaires list, it has failed to solve the country's deep economic and social problems inherited from the Soviet times. Russia continues to suffer from a distorted economic structure, with its low labor productivity, heavy reliance on natural resource extraction, low life expectancy, high income inequality, and weak institutions. While a voluminous amount of literature has studied various individual aspects of the Russian economy, in the West there has been no comprehensive and systematic analysis of the socialist legacies, the current state, and future prospects of the Russian economy gathered in one book. The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy fills this gap by offering a broad range of topics written by the best Western and Russian scholars of the Russian economy. While the book's focus is the current state of the Russian economy, the first part of the book also addresses the legacy of the Soviet command economy and offers an analysis of institutional aspects of Russia's economic development over the last decade. The second part covers the most important sectors of the economy. The third part examines the economic challenges created by the gigantic magnitude of regional, geographic, ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity of Russia. The fourth part covers various social issues, including health, education, and demographic challenges. It will also examine broad policy challenges, including the tax system, rule of law, as well as corruption and the underground economy. Michael Alexeev and Shlomo Weber provide for the first time in one volume a complete, well-rounded, and essential look at the complex, emerging Russian economy.
