“Improvements” in the mechanisms of democracy for making decisions about providing taxpayer-financed public goods can lead the economy in the same direction as authoritarianism. Such a by-product may be insignificant, but, even if so, a tradition of abridging democracy, similarly to an...

Adam Smith pointed out public respect, prestige as significant component of compensation "for some employment" ("honorableness ... of employment"). We assumed, the public moral sanction on success (Weber), public demand for "self-made man" should correlate positively with number of businessmen...

Russian Abstract: В статье обсуждается гипотеза утверждающая, что в современном мире государство не в состоянии обеспечивать защиту своим гражданам и потому может...

Russian Abstract: В течение исторически длительного периода, начиная с эпохи промышленного переворота, успехи народного образования, расширение охвата, увеличение...

Russian Abstract: "Стратегия…" является продолжением и дополнением работы "Институциональные ограничения современного экономического роста", впервые вышедшей в 2011...

Russian Abstract: Дополнительные материалы содержат ссылки по следующим темам: некоторые основные особенности партизанских войн прошлого и наших дней; исторические...

This publication is about the institutional barriers which reduce the social policy outcome in the Russian Federation. Many efforts of the executive power and legislators undermine the incentives of the physical persons to invest in the social sphere both in the financial form and in the form of...

In the frame of the present research we considered a hypothesis on the existence of a trend to a widespreading of standards and practices which expand the horizon of the regional authorities' discretion and possibilities for their discretionary regulation, due to the federal authorities'...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the course, determinants and political economy of economic reforms in Russia conducted in the period 1985-2003. The year 1985 can be considered an important turning point in Soviet/Russian history, marked as it was by the election of Mikhail Gorbachev to...

Russian Abstract: Представленные материалы дополняют главу "Проблемы реформы здравоохранения" в книге "Стратегия долгосрочного процветания: в поисках растаявшего...