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...

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...

The paper presents description of political context of regulatory reforms of early 2000-ties. The reforms described were finished before the oil prices hike made the business climate issue obsolete during 2nd Presidential term of President Putin. The key factors for the regulatory reforms...

In this paper we tested the hypothesis of the "political" basis for the "economic" rights. We constructed our own variables of political regimes' classification for years 1820-2000. We found significant positive interdependencies between the Democracy's indicators and Economic Growth. Protection...

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

The present coronavirus crisis caused major worldwide disruption which has not been experienced for decades. The lockdown-based crisis management was implemented by nearly all the countries, and studies confirming lockdown effectiveness can be found alongside with the studies questioning it. In...

Why researchers, funded on the decision of government officials and promoting advice to entrust the Government more power and to give the Government more funds, never report conflict of interest? Materials collected and presented below provide some explanations for this phenomenon (‘They never...

As every crisis, current COVID19 pandemic caused economic setback, brings not only heavy losses for all the countries, but opportunity to succeed also. The opportunity and success not require heavy governmental spending but termination of various practices harming both business climate and...

The paper consists of reference materials on Family crisis. The problem (literature review) focused on number of the version explaining fall in fertility (birthrate) in the industrialized countries. Possibility to propose governmental policies efficiently encouraging giving birth among middle...

Historical data on US aid to Israel illustrates incentives of political leaders and special interests, first and foremost in Israel. As on the early stages of Alliance Israel military capabilities could provide valuable services to USA, undermining USSR influence in the Middle East, the current...