Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/212545 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
BOFIT Discussion Papers No. 15/2004
Publisher: 
Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman recently rendered a summary verdict on the post-Soviet Russian transition experience finding that the Federation had become a normal country with the west's assistance, and predicting that it would liberalize and develop further like other successful nations of its type.This essay demonstrates that they are mistaken.It shows factually, and on the norms elaborated by Pareto, Arrow and Bergson that Russia is an abnormal political economy unlikely to democratize, westernize or embrace free enterprise any time soon.
Subjects: 
Russia
transition
welfare
JEL: 
P30
P40
P51
P52
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
951-686-974-2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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