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

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Table of Contents

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
Critical Juncture Approach;Demarcation Line;Russian economic thought;Russian Economic Science;Economic reforms;Shock Therapy;Economic policy;Voprosy Ekonomiki;Market economy;Economic Journals;Modernization and economic innovation;Nikolai Petrakov;Perestroika;Central Eastern European Countries;Russia;Edinaia Rossiia;institutions;State Led Development;economic stability;Official Soviet Version;economic change;Western Mainstream Economics;Developed Socialist Society;Soviet Economic Journals;Large Scale Institutional Change;Leonid Abalkin;Russian Economic Liberalism;Soviet Political Economists;Commodity Money Relations;Central Eastern Europe;Soviet Economic Thought;Gavriil Popov;Novyi Mir;Endogenous Trigger;Gorbachev's Economic Advisor