Abstract
The much-heralded “transition to the market” in Russia is now widely recognized to be a far more complex and open-ended process than many at first expected. Boris Yeltsin’s last state-of-the-federation speech to the Duma reflected this realization: “We are stuck halfway between a planned, command economy and a normal, market one. And now we have an ugly model-a crossbreed of the two systems.” Yeltsin’s mixing of metaphors-the spatial with the biological-reflected the fundamental confusion in logic that has plagued economic policymaking in post-Soviet Russia. A hybrid-the biological mixture of two genotypes-is not a halfway point. If it were, the current dilemma would be simpler to resolve.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Russia in the New Century |
Subtitle of host publication | Stability or Disorder? |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
Pages | 103-125 |
Number of pages | 23 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780429966064 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780813390413 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2018 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Social Sciences