The monograph deals with central aspects of the interaction of political and economic factors in contemporary international life, such as political instruments of the states which are used in their foreign policy, and political risks that arise when international companies interact with the state in countries where they make business. The basic economic mechanisms used by states to achieve its goals in foreign policy are reviewed. The second part reflects problems of political risk, methods of analysis, insurance and political risk management.

For students of international affairs, as political scientists and economists, as well as professionals involved in direct investment abroad and foreign investment insurance matters.

The monograph consists of studies prepared and published in 2001–2013. While covering very diverse theoretical issues they focus on three key subjects — methodology of economic analysis; institutional economics; human capital. The first part includes a series of intellectual portraits of five Nobel laureates — Fridrich Hayek, Ronald Coase, Gary Becker, Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson. The second part examines various methodological issues — an institutional approach proposed by K. Polanyi; alternative interpretations of the Coase theorem; a history of debates around QWERTY-effect; the normative program of behavioral economics known as a “new” paternalism. In the next part fundamental institutional problems are discussed such as an economic role of property rights and effectiveness of enforcement. The last part explores issues associated with theoretical analysis and quantitative measurements of human capital.

The book explores the issues of the general part of the criminal law as applied to economic crimes. The author espouses the idea of the economic criminal law as an independent sub-branch of the criminal law and systematically analyzes the criminogenic elements of the relevant crimes, the specifics of objective and subjective elements of crimes, stages of crime, complicity in crime, valid defenses, and punishment. The monograph is based on the modern criminal and other law of the Russian Federation (as of September 1, 2018), the law of the foreign countries, legal precedents, and doctrinal sources.
The book will be useful for scholars and practitioners, undergraduate and graduate students of law schools, as well as for the business community and all interested in the modern problems of the criminal law.

This book is devoted to analyzing the development of Russia’s public procurement system during the period the Law on Public Procurement (No. 94-FZ), which became the basis for radical reform of how public procurement was regulated in the second half of the 2000s. Unlike numerous publications on the subject of public procurement that are predominantly normative and descriptive in nature, the conclusions and recommendations in this book are based on the results of analyzing large amounts of empirical data. These data were collected during the period 2009–2014 at the HSE Institute for Industrial and Market Studies and the HSE Centre for Institutional Studies and included surveys of suppliers, qualitative interviews with state buyers, as well as information available from official sources on procurement by certain state organizations and procurement of different product categories. This book shows how possible problems in the functioning of public procurement systems can be identified within the framework of empirical research and how the feasibility of possible solutions to these problems can be supported. The results and methodology underlying this book will be important in the coming years for analytical support of the Contract System created in accordance with Law No. 44-FZ.

This book is intended for teachers at universities and business schools; for postgraduate and undergraduate students in the fields of Economics, Management, and Public Administration; and for professionals involved in planning and managing public procurement processes in federal and regional state agencies, supplier enterprises and contracting organizations.