TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shleifer,Andrei
TI  - A normal country: Russia after communism 
SN  - 0674015827
AV  - HC340.12 .S4937 2005
U1  - 330.947 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cambridge, MA
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Post-communism
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 1991-
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index; 1; Russia after communism --; 2; The transition to a market economy : pitfalls of partial reform --; 3; Privatizing Russia --; 4; How does privatization work? : evidence from the Russian shops --; 5; Origins of bad policies : control, corruption, and confusion --; 6; The invisible hand and the grabbing hand --; 7; The unofficial economy in transition --; 8; Toward a theory of legal reform --; 9; Federalism with and without political centralization : China versus Russia --; 10; A normal country
N2  - "Russia's historic transition from communism in the 1990s sparked intense, often ideological debates. This book offers a firsthand glimpse into the intellectual challenges that Russia's turbulent transition generated. It deals with many of the most important reforms, from Gorbachev's hesitant "perestroika," to the mass privatization program, to the efforts to build legal and regulatory institutions of a market economy. The essays in this book attempt to identify the driving forces of Russia's rapidly changing economic and political reality."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -