Russia
Subtitle: a long view
By: Yegor Gaidar ; translated by Antonina W. Bouis
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9780262017411
Subjects: Economic conditions; Economic history
Work titles: Dolgoe vremi︠a︡
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Modern economic growth; title: Modern economic growth; title: Economic determinism and the twentieth-century experience; title: The general and the particular in modern economic growth; title: Agrarian societies and capitalism; title: Traditional agrarian society; title: A different path; title: The phenomenon of antiquity; title: Capitalism and the rise of Europe; title: The trajectory of Russia's development; title: Particular features of Russia's economic development; title: The collapse of an empire; title: Major issues of the postindustrial world; title: The post-socialist crisis and recovery growth; title: The dynamics of population and international migration; title: The state burden on the economy; title: The formation and crisis of systems of social safeguards; title: The evolution of education and healthcare systems; title: The transformation of the system for manning the armed forces; title: On the stability and flexibility of political systems; title: Epilogue; title: Bibliographical references; title: Index.