Mirrors of the economy
Subtitle: national accounts and international norms in Russia and beyond
By: Yoshiko M. Herrera
Series: Cornell studies in political economy; Cornell studies in political economy
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780801445859
Description: Studies the changeover in postcommunist societies from the Material Product System of accounting to the System of National Accounts system in the early 1990s and adherence to the SNA norms thereafter by means of interviews with Russian statisticians and examination of the in-house journal of Goskomstat (Vestnik statistiki, which became Voprosy statistiki).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A system of national accounts : the postcommunist transformation of Russian statistics; title: Accounting for implementation : a theory of conditional norms; title: Accidental hegemony : how the system of national accounts became an international norm; title: Efficiency, resources, and capacity in the implementation of the SNA; title: Cui bono? : politicians, statisticians, and international organizations in Russian implementation of the SNA; title: Professionals in the service of the state : the organizational identity of Russian statisticians; title: Statistics as a mirror of the economy : the SNA as a conditional norm.