Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9781139776875
1139776878
9781139207850
1139207857
9781139779913
1139779915
1139782908
9781139782906
9781283741477
1283741474
9781107026544
1107026547
9781107628182
1107628180
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "Anders Åslund is known for making bold predictions, which initially arouse controversy but become common wisdom a few years later. He foresaw the collapse of the Soviet Union in his book Gorbachev's Struggle for Economic Reform (1989). He depicted the success of Russia's market transformation in How Russia Became a Market Economy (1995), when others saw little but chaos. After Russia's financial crisis of 1998, ijlund insisted that Russia had no choice but to adjust to the world market (Building Capitalism, 2002), although most observers declared the market economic experiment a failure. - Why did not Russia choose Chinese gradual reforms? - Why are the former Soviet countries growing much faster than the Central European economies? - How did the oligarchs arise? - Where are the postcommunist countries heading? These are just some of the questions answered in his new book How Capitalism Was Built which tells the story how all but three of twenty-one former communist countries were transformed into market economies from 1989 to 2011, but less than half of them became democracies. Anybody who wants to understand the often confusing dramas unfolding in the region and to obtain an early insight into the future will find this book useful and intellectually stimulating"--
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| Other form: | Print version: Åslund, Anders, 1952- How capitalism was built. 2nd ed. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107026544
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