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 …

The central premise of the article is that the assumptions and approaches of the
“anticorruption industry” that debuted in the 1990s framed the issue of corruption and …

The Soviet Union created a unique form of urban modernity, developing institutions of social
provisioning for hundreds of millions of people in small and medium-sized industrial cities …

The standard approach to policy making and advice in economics implicitly or explicitly
ignores politics and political economy and maintains that if possible, any market failure …

We document that, in a cross section of countries, government regulation is strongly
negatively correlated with measures of trust. In a simple model explaining this correlation …

Since the early 1990s, Europe's economies have been facing several new challenges: the
1992 single market programme, the collapse of the Berlin wall and eastward enlargement …

Fully revised and updated to reflect the considerable changes in Russia over the last
decade, the fifth edition of this classic text builds on the strengths of previous editions to …

Why does corporate governance--front page news with the collapse of Enron, WorldCom,
and Parmalat--vary so dramatically around the world? This book explains how politics …

Research on regime change has often wound up chasing events in the post-Soviet world
because it has frequently assumed that regime change, if not simple instability, implies a …

In recent years economists have increasingly been concerned with understanding the
creation of the “rules of the game”—in the broad sense of political economy—rather than …