Angesichts der Sorge um das wirtschaftliche Überleben in den aus der Sowjetunion hervorgegangenen Staaten wird vor dem Hintergrund eines marktwirtschaftlichen Referenzsystems untersucht, inwieweit in einigen dieser Staaten die ordnungspolitischen Voraussetzungen für ein Ende der...

The paper deals with the connection between politically induced catch-up development, cultural and intellectual traditions and economic order in Germany and Russia. It is argued that in the history of both countries we encounter significant structural parallels, including the totalitarian...

The work deals with the ideological clashes in Russian economic thought after 1991. Based on Schumpeter's distinction between economic analysis and economic thought, the paper focuses on a principal conflict that divides a new generation of Westernminded scholars and traditional Russian...

The present study is a continuation of an earlier paper by the same author dealing with the economic debates in the Soviet Union between 1987 and 1991 (HWWA Discussion Paper 324; Europe-Asia Studies vol. 58, no. 2). After there had been a paradigm shift in Russian economics around 1990, in the...

Die schwere wirtschaftliche und politische Krise Rußlands läßt Zweifel an der Reformfähigkeit dieses Landes aufkommen. Welche Fehler wurden beim Übergang von der Planwirtschaft in die Marktwirtschaft gemacht? In welchem Umfang ist die Krise politisch bedingt? Wie sind die Reformchancen?

The paper emphasizes the transition in Russia and the role institutions played before and during the process. In Russia, a big bang approach was applied. That is to say, transition was conducted all of a sudden, omitting important underlying reforms. This practice should function as a shock...