Российский путь: Идеи, Интересы, Институты, Иллюзии

СПб. : European University at Saint-Petersburg, 2017.

Заостровцев А., Травин Д., Гельман В.

The book presents a political and economic analysis of the the last decades, in the center of which there is a role five "I" - ideas, interests, a historical path, institutions and illusions. Russian economic reforms are a complex of processes, including both forward and back movements and associated not only with the actions of political leaders, but also with objective circumstances. During the reforms there is a mutual influence of new radical ideas, driven by intellectual and political elites, interests that are defended by different groups of influence, and institutions (rules of the game) arising under the influence of these ideas and interests. Key interest groups, in turn, form not accidentally, but under the influence of the specific historical path of the countries. Finally, economic development is seriously influenced by illusions experienced by a society that is not satisfied with the ways of economic development and the dynamics of real incomes.

Keywords: права собственности, property rights, институты, institutions, группы интересов, the rule of law, интересы, верховенство права, иллюзии, исторический путь, interests, идеи, уровень жизни в России, ideas, illusions, reforms of the 90's, bad governance, technocratic traps, level of living in Russia, реформы 1990-х, мафиозное государство, недостойное правление, технократические ловушки