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A Normal Country / Andrei Shleifer, Daniel Treisman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shleifer, Andrei.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w10057.
- NBER working paper series no. w10057
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2003.
- Summary:
- During the 1990s, Russia underwent an extraordinary transformation from a communist dictatorship to a multi-party democracy, from a centrally planned economy to a market economy, and from a belligerent adversary of the West to a cooperative partner. Yet a consensus in the US circa 2000 viewed Russia as a disastrous and threatening failure, and the 1990s as a decade of catastrophe for its citizens. Analyzing a variety of economic and political data, we demonstrate a large gap between this perception and the facts. In contrast to the common image, by the late 1990s Russia had become a typical middle-income capitalist democracy.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- November 2003.
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