PROBLEMS OF THEORY
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BIG BUSINESS IN RUSSIA
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FROM THE RUSSIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY
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REFLECTIONS ON THE BOOK |
- Ya. Pevzner - World Economic Science against Marxist "Orthodoxy" (On the Book "The History of Economic Thought" ed. by V. Avtonomov, O. Anan'in, N. Makasheva)
- V. Perevedentsev - Russia's Demographic Present and Future (On the book "Population of Russia 2000" ed. by
A.G. Vishnevsky)
Abstracts
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J. KORNAI.
The System Paradigm
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A new paradigm in social science does not replace necessarily an old one; various paradigms might exist side-by-side. The main attributes of the system paradigm are as follows. 1. Concern with a system as a whole. 2. Not confined to any partial discipline, but a school of general social science. 3. Focus on institutions. 4. Understanding the historical process which creates human organizations. 5. Special attention to the determinants of preferences. 6. Strong interest in transition from one system to the other. 7. Recognition of system-specific dysfunctions. The paper discusses the explanatory and predictive power of the system paradigm.
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A. OLEINIK.
A Deficit of the Law
(A Critical Political Economy of Private Protection)
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Market reforms of the 1990s in Russia were thought as a way to overcome a shortage of goods and services. Author argues that the reforms gave rise to another type of shortage, the deficit of universal and acceptable for all economic actors norms - the Law. Two periods of the reforms, teleological and genetic (W. Andreff), are considered. During the genetic period of the reforms (the second half of the 1980s) the deficit of the Law resulted from a lack of official justice. The teleological reforms lead to a situation where the costs of the Law start playing a key role. The author shows that reducing the costs of the Law abiding behavior is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition of successful market reforms. Issues of the justice should be taken into consideration as well. Economic actors will refer to the Law only if it is not prohibitively expensive and if they believe in justice of legal decision. Last condition could be attained only in the framework of a democratic state.
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O. KUZNETSOVA.
Theoretical Grounds of State Regulation of Regional
Economic Development
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The future of regional policy in Russia basing on the present-day theory of regional policy is discussed in the article. The author points at the advantages of the implementation of "adaptive model" of regional policy in Russia. Theories of regional policy are studied in the article together with location theories (static and dynamic theories are viewed) and theories of regional growth (approaches of different foreign scientific schools are compared).
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V. GOREGLYAD.
Budgetary System and Economic Potential of The Country
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The official strategy of Russian budgetary policy is based on the postulate of annual balance of the federal budget. Positive results of this process were produced in the main part by favourable conjuncture of the external raw materials markets; they couldn't be identified as consequences of the stabilisation of the budgetary system as a whole. The author supposes that the policy of budgetary transfers has to be complemented by a sort of policy of the federal powers, which must be directed at the realisation of the regional priorities of economic growth. The author formulates the aim of reaching complex balance of the whole expanded consolidated budget on all levels of the budgetary system.
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A. DYNKIN, A. SOKOLOV.
Integrated Business Groups in the Russian Economy
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The article focuses on the analysis of the Russian big business development, on its role in the modernisation of the Russian economy, and on methodological approaches to the assessment of integrated business groups (IBG). It points out the peculiarities of the big Russian companies structure and links between companies within a group. The authors offer measures on stimulating the national big business competitiveness and plausible strategies for relations between the government and business groups. The paper also presents medium-range scenario forecasts of the integrated groups' development.
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M. BOBINA.
Strategic Inter-firm Alliances
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The article considers the essence and economic content of phenomena of strategic inter-firm alliances and suggests the classification of forms of corporate strategic cooperation. Analysis of inter-firm consolidation practices in information technologies, automotive industry, transportation services and finance sector presents industry-specific features of alliances. The article displays the ways alliances influence competition and the problems the government faces in regulating their activity.
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M. DERYABINA.
The Role of Private Capital in Reforming the Russian
Defense-industrial Complex
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The article deals with the expansion of private capital to the enterprises of the Russian defense-industrial complex. It is undergoing the process of privatization and redistribution of property and control rights now. The author analyses relationships between the interests of the state, management and private investors. Present aims and forms of integration in different branches are studied as well as within the framework of the federal DIC reforming program.
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K. SAVITSKY.
Russian Corporate Governance Code:
Law and Economic Analysis
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The article deals with the analysis of the Russian Corporate Governance Code, which was adopted by the Government of Russian Federation on November 28, 2001. The research is based on law and economic methods and touches upon the problems of corporate regulations creation and the Corporate Governance Code implementation process. Two basic concepts concerning corporate regulations and the problem of trade-off between administrative and self-regulating methods are also discussed in the article.
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А. PYZHIKOV.
The Amplitude of the Economic Development of the USSR
(1953-1964)
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The main characteristics of the economic development of the USSR in the period when N. Khrushchev was at power are considered in the article. Khrushchev's "thaw" in a political sphere was accompanied by the positive shifts in the economy, the attempts to reorient the militarized economy towards social problems. But the economy fully experienced all the zigzags of the political line of the Khrushchev's period. The economic development was not determined by logic and vital needs, it remained "captured" by the conceptions of CPSU leadership and mainly Khrushchev's, being so far away from reality.
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