While for the whole world the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the third millennium was the year 2000, for Russia the line between eras came nine years earlier. In 1991, the Soviet era ended and a new one began, which (for lack of anything better) is still called the post-Soviet...

The neo-institutional conceptual models that have already become widely known among domestic economistsâthe theory of social choice and the theory of property rightsâstudy the influence of legal norms on the development of legal and official business. In contrast to them, the economic theory...

(Comparative Approach to «Social Virtues») This article offers economic and sociological theory of trust, embodying the idea of "social capital" by James Coleman. It also analyzes empirical data on personal and institutional trust obtained on the basis of nationwide opinion poll in the project...