In this unique work, Jennifer Considine and William Kerr contend that while OPEC currently dominates the international oil market, Russia will be a key player in the future international energy market. Indeed, Russia's petroleum resources rival those of Saudi Arabia. More than almost any other...

This book is the one of the first-if not the first one-to address aid effectiveness from a comparative economics perspective. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transition of its republics to market structures and representative forms of government, the European Commission had...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Note on the Documents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Revolution and War Communism -- CHAPTER 2. The Old Village and the New Economic Policy -- CHAPTER 3. Smychka: The Bond between City and Village -- CHAPTER 4. Was...

This book gathers selected papers presented at the International Scientific Conference “Economics in the Changing World,” held on June 26-27, 2018 at the Institute of Management, Economics and Finance of Kazan Federal University (Kazan, Russia). The conference featured contributions by...