Stefan Hedlund

Invisible Hands, Russian Experience, and Social Science

Approaches to Understanding Systemic Failure

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates cases in which national and international activities have gone massively wrong, entailing seriously negative consequences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 681g
• ISBN-13: 9780521768108
• ISBN-10: 0521768101
• Artikelnr.: 33256538

Autorenporträt

Stefan Hedlund was appointed Professor of Soviet and East European Studies at Uppsala University in 1990. Over the years since then, he has published extensively on the break-up of the Soviet order, attempted Russian reforms and the importance of historical legacies. Professor Hedlund has been a frequent commentator in the media and has traveled and lectured widely, including two sabbatical semesters at Harvard University, as well as briefer stays at the Kennan Institute and George Washington University, Washington, DC, Stanford University and Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. His most recent publications include Russian Path Dependence (2005), Russia Since 1980 (Cambridge University Press, with Steven Rosefielde, 2009) and Authoritarian Market Economy (Chinese edition, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Opportunity and self-interest
2. Scope and tradition of social science
3. Markets under central planning
4. Russia's historical legacy
5. Markets everywhere
6. Institutional choice
7. History matters
8. Concluding discussion
9. Implications for social science.