: Yegor Gaidar, Antonina W. Bouis, Anders Aslund
: Russia A Long View
: The MIT Press
: 9780262305303
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: CHF 77.70
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: Sonstiges
: English
: 568
: DRM
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It is not so easy to take the long view of socioeconomic history when you are participating in a revolution. For that reason, Russian economist Yegor Gaidar put aside an early version of this work to take up a series of government positions--as Minister of Finance and as Boris Yeltsin's acting Prime Minister--in the early 1990s. In government, Gaidar shepherded Russia through its transition to a market economy after years of socialism. Once out of government, Gaidar turned again to his consideration of Russia's economic history and long-term economic and political challenges. This book, revised and updated shortly before his death in 2009, is the result. Gaidar's account of long-term socioeconomic trends puts his country in historical context and outlines problems faced by Russia (and other developing economies) that more developed countries have already encountered: aging population, migration, evolution of the system of social protection, changes in the armed forces, and balancing stability and flexibility in democratic institutions. This is not a memoir, but, Gaidar points out, neither is it",written from the position of a man who spent his entire life in a research institute.", Gaidar's",long view", is inevitably informed and enriched by his experience in government at a watershed moment in history.