Preface : The strongman economy? -- Putin's economic inheritance -- Reforging the Russian state -- Rise of the energy giants -- Stabilizing Russia's finances -- Restructuring Russian industry -- Wages and welfare -- From crisis to crisis -- Putinomics under pressure -- Postscript : Can...

Asian pivot: the roots of Soviet economic reform -- Take off or leap forward?: Soviet assessments of China after Mao -- Gorbachev's gamble: interest group politics and perestroika -- Soviet industry, Sichuan style: Gorbachev's enterprise reforms -- A Soviet Shenzhen?: copying China's special...

Cover -- Support Acknowledgments -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Background Facts -- Chapter Two: The Broad-Based Rise in the Return to Top Talent -- Chapter Three: The Economic Determinants of Top...