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The lost promise of democratic socialism in Russia

Klimina, Anna - In: Journal of economic issues : jei 51 (2017) 2, pp. 458-466

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'Marco Polo Economics' and Narrative in the NBER Soviet Growth Study

Kuehn, Daniel - 2021

In his 1962 NBER volume, Growth of Industrial Production in the Soviet Union, Warren Nutter writes about how the study of the Soviet economy was hamstrung by official secrecy and misinformation. Western economists were forced to rely on what Nutter called “Marco Polo economics” or...

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The Mirage of Democratic Socialism

Niemietz, Kristian Peter - 2021

This paper reiterates the classical liberal critique of socialism in the format of alternative history. The history … participatory model of socialism. Our fictional socialist leaders have the best of intentions. They share the ideals of democratic … technically set in East Germany, but it is not really about that particular example of socialism. It is about the very idea of …

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M-Form Hierarchy with Poorly-Diversified Divisions : A Case of Khrushchev’s Reform in Soviet Russia

Markevič, Andrej M.; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - 2014

We test the premise of the theoretical literature that M-form political hierarchies are effective in creating yardstick competition between regional divisions only when divisions have sufficiently diversified or similar industrial composition. The reason is that the competition among...

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Загадки Общественного Мнения : Почему Советское Население Поддерживает Переход К Капитализму С Конца 80-Х Годов (Puzzles of Public Opinion: Why Soviet Population Supports the Transition to Capitalism Since the Late 1980s)

Popov, Vladimir - 2014

Russian Abstract: Почему после резкого увеличения неравенства в 90-е годы прошлого века, после появления и стремительного обогащения олигархов, альтернативная (левая,...

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Career Incentives of Governors in Late Tsarist Russia

Gokmen, Gunes - 2015

Recent empirical studies show that career advancement may be employed as a tool to improve the efficiency of a political hierarchy. This paper investigates whether the central authorities in the Russian Empire resorted to career advancement incentives to improve the performance of provincial...

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Puzzles of Public Opinion : Why Soviet Population Supports the Transition to Capitalism Since the 1980s

Popov, Vladimir - 2014

Why even after the dramatic increase in inequality in the 1990s and after the emergence and enrichment of “oligarchs”, the alternative (leftist, social democratic) economic policies that could have improved material and social wellbeing of the majority of the population is not supported by...

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The Transition to a Market Economy in Russia : Property Rights, Mass Privatization and Stabilization

Feige, Edgar L. - 2016

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Comrades in the Family? Soviet Communism and Informal Family Insurance

Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna - 2021

We study the effect of exposure to communism (EC), a political-economic regime based on collectivist planning, on preferences for family supports, which we refer to as 'informal family insurance'. We exploit both cross-country and cohort variation in EC in a large sample of Central and Eastern...

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Comrades in the family? : Soviet communism and informal family insurance

Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna - 2020

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