Estimating the outcomes of the Russian reforms, the authors suggest the idea of raising of institutions. This insight opposes to the concept of radical institutional changes and the concept of strong institutional inertia. An approach to institutional reforms which is confined to the adoption of...

The present article will discuss empirical sociological research techniques and the principal difficulties that arise in this work.

Various crisis phenomena in our country's system of socioeco-nomic and political relations have generated a question that was unusual yesterday but that is customary today: is this socialism? There are also answers to this question: either declarationsappealing for their newnessthat our society...

Economic behavior taken in pure form incorporates elements that are averaged so as to create the appearance that man's aspirations are universal. This image disappears when we begin to examine the economic order that is formed by the modes of distribution of limited resources and goods as the...