Russia's Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy
Autor Anders Aslunden Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 mai 2019
A
penetrating
look
into
the
extreme
plutocracy
Vladimir
Putin
has
created
and
its
implications
for
Russia’s
future
This insightful study explores how the economic system Vladimir Putin has developed in Russia works to consolidate control over the country. By appointing his close associates as heads of state enterprises and by giving control of the FSB and the judiciary to his friends from the KGB, he has enriched his business friends from Saint Petersburg with preferential government deals. Thus, Putin has created a super wealthy and loyal plutocracy that owes its existence to authoritarianism.
Much of this wealth has been hidden in offshore havens in the United States and the United Kingdom, where companies with anonymous owners and black money transfers are allowed to thrive. Though beneficial to a select few, this system has left Russia’s economy in untenable stagnation, which Putin has tried to mask through military might.
This insightful study explores how the economic system Vladimir Putin has developed in Russia works to consolidate control over the country. By appointing his close associates as heads of state enterprises and by giving control of the FSB and the judiciary to his friends from the KGB, he has enriched his business friends from Saint Petersburg with preferential government deals. Thus, Putin has created a super wealthy and loyal plutocracy that owes its existence to authoritarianism.
Much of this wealth has been hidden in offshore havens in the United States and the United Kingdom, where companies with anonymous owners and black money transfers are allowed to thrive. Though beneficial to a select few, this system has left Russia’s economy in untenable stagnation, which Putin has tried to mask through military might.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780300243093
ISBN-10: 030024309X
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 17 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
ISBN-10: 030024309X
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 17 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
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Recenzii
“Superb
book”—
Martin
Wolf,
Financial
Times
“An
excellent
read.”—Ariel
Cohen,Forbes.com
“An
insightful
and
authoritative
guide
to
Russia’s
economy
since
the
fall
of
communism
by
the
foremost
Western
expert
on
the
subject.”—Daniel
Treisman,
Professor
of
Political
Science,
University
of
California,
Los
Angeles
“Anders
Åslund’s
economic
analysis
is
impeccable.
This
is
a
hard-hitting,
fact-based
account
of
Putin’s
Russia.”—Paul
Gregory,
University
of
Houston
and
Research
Fellow,
Hoover
Institution,
Stanford
University
“No
one
in
the
outside
world
has
followed
and
analyzed
Russia’s
economic
policies
and
trajectory
since
the
demise
of
the
Soviet
Union
as
thoroughly
as
Anders
Åslund.
From
the
early
radical
reforms
to
today’s
stagnating
kleptocracy,
it’s
a
huge
story,
and
no
one
tells
it
better.”—Carl
Bildt,
former
Prime
Minister
and
Foreign
Minister
of
Sweden
“Anders
Åslund
has
tracked
Russia’s
economy
since
perestroika
and
has
written
the
definitive
assessment
of
Putin’s
kleptocratic
system—how
it
functions
and
why
it
needs
authoritarianism
and
xenophobia
to
survive.”—Alexander
Vershbow,
former
US
Ambassador
to
Russia
"After
a
decade,
Anders
Åslund
has
returned
to
the
subject
of
Russia
and
produced
an
interesting,
well-written and
challenging
analysis
of
where
the
economy
stands,
how
it
got
here,
and
where
it
and
President
Putin
may
be
heading."—Stanley
Fischer,
Former
First
Deputy
Managing
Director
of
the
IMF
Notă biografică
Anders Åslund is a leading specialist on economic policy in Russia, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
Descriere
A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russia’s future
This insightful study explores how the economic system Vladimir Putin has developed in Russia works to consolidate control over the country. By appointing his close associates as heads of state enterprises and by giving control of the FSB and the judiciary to his friends from the KGB, he has enriched his business friends from Saint Petersburg with preferential government deals. Thus, Putin has created a super wealthy and loyal plutocracy that owes its existence to authoritarianism.
Much of this wealth has been hidden in offshore havens in the United States and the United Kingdom, where companies with anonymous owners and black money transfers are allowed to thrive. Though beneficial to a select few, this system has left Russia’s economy in untenable stagnation, which Putin has tried to mask through military might.
This insightful study explores how the economic system Vladimir Putin has developed in Russia works to consolidate control over the country. By appointing his close associates as heads of state enterprises and by giving control of the FSB and the judiciary to his friends from the KGB, he has enriched his business friends from Saint Petersburg with preferential government deals. Thus, Putin has created a super wealthy and loyal plutocracy that owes its existence to authoritarianism.
Much of this wealth has been hidden in offshore havens in the United States and the United Kingdom, where companies with anonymous owners and black money transfers are allowed to thrive. Though beneficial to a select few, this system has left Russia’s economy in untenable stagnation, which Putin has tried to mask through military might.