When Ideas Fail
When Ideas Fail
Economic Thought, the Failure of Transition and the Rise of Institutional Instability in Post-Soviet Russia
Zweynert, Joachim
Taylor & Francis Ltd
11/2017
154
Dura
Inglês
9781138559271
15 a 20 dias
440
1 Introduction
2 The Role of Ideas in Great Transformations
Transition as functional differentiation
Constructivist institutionalism and the structure/agency-problem
What is special about Russia
What is special about Russia I: Lack of liberal underground discourses
What is specific about Russia II: The struggle between two thought collectives
What is Specific about Russia III: Deep ideational backgrounds
3 The Legacy of the Brezhnev Period: 1971-1986
Why deal with the Brezhnev period?
Self-organization versus mobilization
The economics of developed socialism
The origins of the concept
The economic mechanism
Base and superstructure
Commodity-money relations
Conclusion
4 Cracking the Protective Belt: 1987-1992
Back to the 1960s and taking it further
What was Soviet ideology?
Perestroika and the Soviet telos
Early debates in Voprosy ekonomiki, and the new textbook on political economy
The in?ow of Western liberal ideas
The MEiMO debate on Western reforms
The Debates in the general interest press
The decline of Soviet ideology
Paradigm shift or continuity?
5 Towards a Precarious Consensus: 1993-1998
Western textbooks, Russian reality
The intellectual background to shock therapy
Post-industrial society and the comeback of slavophile ideas
Regulation, economic security, and the "Russian economic school"
The rise of Russian institutionalism
A new consensus?
6 In Search of a "Russian Way": 1999-2006
Taking stock of post-socialist reforms
The discussion about the stabilization fund
The nationalist turn
Reappraisal of the planned economy
Indicative planning and mobilisation versus structural reforms
Liberal Reactions to increasing state intereference
Economics or political economy?
Russian economic science on the retreat from international discourse
7 A New Transition Debate: 2007-2012
2007 as a turning point
Conflicting concepts of innovation and modernization
Modernization and innovation in economics and in sociology
The "coalitions for modernization" debate
Discussions within the liberal camp
The position of the gosudarstvenniki
The political dimension of the debate
Conservative modernization versus innovation
Innovation and modernization in presidential speeches
A "fear of perestroika"?
8 Conclusion
Biographical Appendix
References
1 Introduction
2 The Role of Ideas in Great Transformations
Transition as functional differentiation
Constructivist institutionalism and the structure/agency-problem
What is special about Russia
What is special about Russia I: Lack of liberal underground discourses
What is specific about Russia II: The struggle between two thought collectives
What is Specific about Russia III: Deep ideational backgrounds
3 The Legacy of the Brezhnev Period: 1971-1986
Why deal with the Brezhnev period?
Self-organization versus mobilization
The economics of developed socialism
The origins of the concept
The economic mechanism
Base and superstructure
Commodity-money relations
Conclusion
4 Cracking the Protective Belt: 1987-1992
Back to the 1960s and taking it further
What was Soviet ideology?
Perestroika and the Soviet telos
Early debates in Voprosy ekonomiki, and the new textbook on political economy
The in?ow of Western liberal ideas
The MEiMO debate on Western reforms
The Debates in the general interest press
The decline of Soviet ideology
Paradigm shift or continuity?
5 Towards a Precarious Consensus: 1993-1998
Western textbooks, Russian reality
The intellectual background to shock therapy
Post-industrial society and the comeback of slavophile ideas
Regulation, economic security, and the "Russian economic school"
The rise of Russian institutionalism
A new consensus?
6 In Search of a "Russian Way": 1999-2006
Taking stock of post-socialist reforms
The discussion about the stabilization fund
The nationalist turn
Reappraisal of the planned economy
Indicative planning and mobilisation versus structural reforms
Liberal Reactions to increasing state intereference
Economics or political economy?
Russian economic science on the retreat from international discourse
7 A New Transition Debate: 2007-2012
2007 as a turning point
Conflicting concepts of innovation and modernization
Modernization and innovation in economics and in sociology
The "coalitions for modernization" debate
Discussions within the liberal camp
The position of the gosudarstvenniki
The political dimension of the debate
Conservative modernization versus innovation
Innovation and modernization in presidential speeches
A "fear of perestroika"?
8 Conclusion
Biographical Appendix
References