Based on the 2017 conference "'New Reality' and Russian Markets" held at Harvard University, this book brings together world-renowned thinkers to offer the latest empirical research on recent financial risks, institutional policies, and financial stability.

FrontMatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Summaries of Workshop Presentations and Discussions -- 2 Themes that Emerged During the Workshop -- Appendixes -- A Russian-American Workshop: Innovating for Profit in Russia -- B Nuclear Cities Initiative -- C Basic Principles of...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables, and Graphs -- Acknowledgments -- Mystery Women-An Introduction -- 1-Origins of the Shuttle Trade, 1987-91 -- 2-The "Golden Age" of the Shuttle Tradeand Its Structure -- 3-Women Traders: Success in Numbers -- 4-The Price of Success -- 5-Where Did All...

Intro -- Content -- Preface -- The Northern Dimension Policy and Culture -- Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The concept of creative industries in the Russian context -- 2. Russian creative industries in figures -- 2.1 Traditional culture -- 2.2 Entertainment sector -- 2.3 Film industry -- 2.4...

Cover -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- Ch 1. Introduction -- Why the United States Should Grant Russia PNTR -- Ch 2. Russia's Rising Economic Significance -- Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on Russia -- Russia: The Wealthiest of the BRICs and Very Different from China...

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Demography the Social Mirror? ? -- Lies, damned lies and statistics? -- Murder most foul? -- A century of population change in Russia -- The mirror of society? -- 2 The Revolt Against Class Society 1890 1928 -- Mortality in Tsarist Russia -- The class pattern of death --...

Intro -- Contents -- Photographs follow pages 62 and 154 -- Preface -- Chronology of Events, 1991-1997 -- 1 Images, Voices -- 2 The Shock of Economic Freedom -- 3 The Rise of the New Russians -- 4 The Battle for Russia's Wealth -- 5 Capitalism Versus Communism -- 6 The Wary Westerners -- 7...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Sources -- Glossary -- Part One: Policy Design and Legislative Context -- 1. Russia's Contemporary Land Reform: An Overview -- 2. Politics and Property Rights in the Soviet Period -- 3. Politics and Property Rights in...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- A Note on Transliteration, Names, and Translation -- A Note on the Relative Value of Money Then and Now -- Prologue: The Patrimony of Imperial Russia -- Introduction to Bolshevik Gold: The Nature of a Forgotten Problem -- I. The Heist -- 1. The Banks...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Developments in the Global Economy -- 2 Capitalism, the Market, and Morality -- 3 Shifts in the Global Economy of the 1980s-2010 and Changes in the Moral and Psychological Climate -- 4 International Relations, 1980s-2008: Putting Self-Interest...