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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Gajdar, Egor Timurovič (1956-2009)
Titre(s) : Russia [Texte imprimé] : a long view / Yegor Gaidar ; translated by Antonina W. Bouis
Traduction de : Dolgoe vremi︠a︡
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : MIT Press, cop. 2012
Description matérielle : xviii- 543 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Modern economic growth ; Economic determinism and the twentieth-century experience
; The general and the particular in modern economic growth ; Traditional agrarian
society ; A different path ; The phenomenon of antiquity ; Capitalism and the rise
of Europe ; Particular features of Russia's economic development ; The collapse
of an empire ; The postsocialist crisis and recovery growth ; The dynamics of population
and international migration ; The state burden on the economy ; The formation and
crisis of systems of social safeguards ; The evolution of education and healthcare
systems ; The transformation of the system for manning the armed forces ; On the
stability and flexibility of political systems.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
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. Its transition complete, Russia is
once again becoming part of the modern world. 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 populations, migration, evolution of the system of social protection, changes
in the armed forces, and balancing stability and flexibility in democratic institutions.
Topics of discussion in this astonishingly erudite work range from the phenomenon
of modern economic growth to agrarian societies to Russia's development trajectory.
The book features an epilogue written by Gaidar for this English-language edition.
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
Sujet(s) : Postcommunisme
Conditions économiques -- Russie -- 1991-....
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780262017411 (hardcover). - ISBN 0262017415 (hardcover)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43729788v
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FRBNF43729788
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