about Russia's economy. Circulated at the highest levels of the Russian and U.S. governments and reported in leading … publications worldwide, their thesis--that Russia's economy is based on illusion or pretense about nearly every important economic … reform policies in Russia. More important, their work has provided a coherent framework for understanding how and why so much …

In the aftermath of sovereign default of August 1998, the hypothesis of virtual economy in Russia developed by Gaddy …