Russia's Oil Barons and Metal Magnates: Oligarchs and the State in Transition

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Russian politics have been dominated over the last decade by the relationship between the oligarchs and the state. The existing literature is damning of the oligarchs, on two major grounds: they won their wealth and power corruptly, and rapaciously stripped the assets they had so dubiously obtained. This book contains a critical analysis of each of the claims made against them. In doing so it presents a detailed analysis of the place of the oligarchs in the Russian political economy.

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a slightly different view of oligarchs.......2007-06-11

The interesting aspect of Fortescue's book is how he manages to present the Russian oligarchs in a somewhat more favourable light. By now, the predominant view inside and outside Russia is that the oligarchs acquired their assets by virtually looting the new post-communist nation. When ownership and rules were extremely vague.

The book steps through the 90s, looking at the top companies ruled by the oligarchs. Like Yukos or Norilsk Nickel. The author describes numerous managerial decisions made, like centralising authority, or continuing to open or close mines. The mechanisms of transfer pricing are explained. Where often value was extracted from the companies and then moved overseas.

A key part of the book is how taxes are paid (or not) to the government. The minimisation of this was a major charge against them, in the eyes of the government.

The book does suggest that some of the oligarchs' actions were reasonable business decisions, in the context of their environments.

Business and the State in Contemporary Russia

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Business and the State in Contemporary Russia

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this is an economic work of art!
What is to be done? How to do it?

Incentives and Institutions
Serguey Braguinsky , and Grigory Yavlinsky
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ASIN: 0691009937

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Here, for the first time, two of Russia's leading economists provide an authoritative analysis of the transition to a democratic market economy that has taken place in Russia since 1990. Serguey Braguinsky, a Russian economist with extensive international experience, and Grigory Yavlinsky, leader of the liberal "Yabloko" party and a major public figure in Russia, focus on the institutions that are critical to a successful transition and the economic incentives needed to make these institutions work. Finally, they discuss in detail the specific components of the economic processes that are necessary for economic transition in general and they draw lessons that can be applied to other nations dealing with similar transitions.

In 1989, Grigory Yavlinsky became a member of the Commission for Economic Reform and wrote the groundbreaking "500 Day Plan," which outlined the first program of transition to a market economy. Two years later, he co-wrote the program of strategic cooperation between the Soviet government and the West (known as the "Grand Bargain"). Here he and Serguey Braguinsky examine what went wrong with the Russian plan--and what is needed to put the economy back on the road to becoming a fully functioning market economy.

The first section of the book presents a new interpretation of the political economy of the socialist state and the incentives and institutions that underpin it, with an emphasis on the present Russian situation. The second part deals with the political economy of "spontaneous transition" and the inefficiencies inherent in economies that lack the organizations and institutions that inhere in established Western democratic economies. In the final section, the authors present a program of actions to put the economic transition in Russia back on track, based on their assessment of the actual current state of both the economy and the government. Their approach is unique in emphasizing organizational evolution at the microeconomic level instead of stressing macroeconomic issues such as money and inflation that are at the heart of most arguments.

This is a thoughtful and thought-provoking book and one that will be widely discussed and debated.

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this is an economic work of art!.......2003-01-02

I had the extreme pleasure to read this presentation on the overall situation,insight,and ways to solve the questions surrounding the ever-so inpertainant russian economy
I also will tell you that anyone who wants to have an understandig of what is in the mind-set of russian economists and reformists,then please,take the time to invest in this fine
literary work.
grigory a yavlinsky has accomplished yet another difficult task-
and he is,I think(by the reading material that I have read)will be and should be the answer to rebuilding the vast post-soviet economy's sectors,inside and out,this,among other things, is the true way to russian financial security,and this book is definitly the "bible" of works surrounding the russian economy.

What is to be done? How to do it?.......2000-11-29

Yavlinsky warns the reader at the outset of this approach to the Russian transition that the methodology of Incentives and Institutions is more theoretical (mathematical) than his previous works on the Russian transition like 500 Days (1992). The problem in Russia hinges on prohibitive distancing of "owner" (state) control from the management in the Soviet system discussed in Part One, and the conflict of interest of insider control since privatization discussed in Part Two. Part one proposes that: 1) Hierarchical property rights are incompatible with democracy, and 2) Hierarchical property rights and innovations under an "isolated dictator" is incompatible with market allocation of capital. The second requires dictatorial isolation ex ante and ex post in that he never observes the "price." This seems a rather naïve and strict assumption. Part two discusses the path dependence of current insider ownership and its consequences. In both cases the problem is one of incentive compatibility for managers faced with opportunities in the official and unofficial sectors.

Part Three takes these intuitions and presents ideas and proposals for improving the situation. This section focuses on social contract, democratic efficacy, institutional development, and federal decentralization. First they claim "the collapse of communism, caused as it was by the path-dependent spontaneous process, has resulted in the entrenchment of a socioeconomic paradigm that effectively blocks further movement in the direction of a conventional market economy." The social contract of the old system is the paternalism of serfdom followed by communism's "de facto serfdom." The new contract is corporatism at the top, and Hobbesian jungle at the bottom. Political democracy, foreign investment, and market economy are Braguinsky and Yavlinsky's solutions. The failure of this is that, while they get to some of the core of the problem, the "solutions" are self-evident and address "What is to be done?" when the real question is "How to do it?"

Secondly, the authors claim that democracy is not only compatible with reform, but necessary in Russia because of Communism's involvement in economics and politics. The tilt in that balance of power burned both bridges. Why is this not the case in China? They claim that liberalization was not a calculated process as in China (or during NEP in Russia). Another claim is that models of government failure require irrational voters, lack of competition or prohibitive transaction costs. However failed reform is analytically compatible with excessive competition, particularly if it is among reform groups.

Third, they emphasize the role of institutions in competition and eventual growth. They suggest that a "Federal Property Protection Service" form to enforce private property rights directly with firms rather than intermediating government, bureaucracy and industry. This service interacts with firms and is (loosely) accountable to the government. The suggestion is that for a flat fee this FPPS will provide property protection to those who pay. But this sits on a razor's edge. On the one side, the question is of what happens to those who cannot pay the flat fee, and on the other, if it is affordable to everyone, how the service will cover its expenses.

Fourth, they discuss proposals for the decentralization and governmental integrity. As much as the authors beg not to compare Russia to China, their proposals for decentralization and parallel what is done in China with TVEs. Decentralization would be compatible with the FPPS only if special interests in that area do not represent "too large" a share of the total area income. Coalitions of regional enforcement services would form to avoid size bias and allow local FPPS to self-insure against idiosyncratic differences costs and revenues. This scheme relies on the practicality of the FPPS.

While this book ventures to areas that are only beginning to be economically analyzed, it focuses on what is wrong, and what is to be done, not really providing practical, realistic solutions for how to accomplish the goals of transition. The answer lies not in theory, but in the real cultural, social, and economic realities of Russia today and how specific organizations can arise from the norms that are accepted and practiced in Russia.

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The Meltdown of the Russian State: The Deformation and Collapse of the State in Russia (Elgar Monographs)
Piroska Mohacsi Nagy
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ASIN: 1858988209

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The economic power of the Russian state has declined to a point where it is no longer able to perform its basic function - maintaining law and order and providing social services. This innovative book proposes that this inherent weakness of the post-reform Russian state arises from the manner in which the Soviet Union dissolved combined with the critical role played by President Yeltsin.

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The shock waves from Russia that rocked global financial markets in the autumn of 1998 were proof that the process of transformation in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is in deep trouble. In this book, a team of high-ranking members from the CIS administration and economic experts analyses the market-oriented transformations as well as specific features of the market evolving in the 12 states. Using a wide range of statistical data, the authors deal with industry, agriculture, the military-industrial complex, the scientific and social sphere, finance and investment, market infrastructure, international trade, as well as other aspects. Based on the experience of reforms in other major economic regions, they develop a centrist concept for sustainable development and economic integration that offers the possibility of overcoming the current problems. Provides Western readers with an insider view of the present situation and a wealth of valuable statistical data.

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Russia's Post-Communist Economy

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ASIN: 019829526X

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This volume offers a multi-author survey and analysis of economic developments in the Russian Federation since the collapse of Communism and the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1989-91. It covers the period 1991--98 and in some areas extends to 1999-2000. Russia, the core of the former Soviet Union, is at once the largest transition economy of Eastern Europe and also, arguably, the one most burdened by its own past---not only of Communism, but of Tsarist absolutism and territorial aggrandizement in earlier centuries. Its present-day assets of natural-resource wealth and a well-educated labour force are offset by hypertrophied defence industries, unhelpful location of manufacturing capacity, and excessive preponderance of large enterprises. Russia has shared with other transition economies the problems of macro-economic stabilization and reconstruction of economic institutions following the disappearance of the command-administrative system which set guidelines for production under Communism. Economic progress has been held back by misappropriation of business funds and massive associated export of capital to western financial markets. Stabilization and welfare services alike have been handicapped by the difficulty of raising adequate tax revenue - or alternatively of cutting public expenditure commitments sufficiently. Arrears and offset arrangements have proliferated, providing disorderly sources of flexibility in the face of immobile resources and inadequate financial mechanisms, including total failure hitherto to establish a viable commercial banking system. In the consumer sector, income distribution has become (as in other transition economies) markedly more unequal, with regional disparities playing a significant role. State assistance to the worse off has been patchy at best. Mortality and morbidity statistics have deteriorated. But, at the same time, living standards have been supported by continuing non-payment of housing costs and subsidization of household utilities, and have benefitted from external economic liberalization, which has given households access to foreign consumption goods and to dollar bills as a key savings medium and liquidity reserve. Altogether, average living standards have changed little in Russia's first post-Communist decade, despite the massive drop in industrial production and consequential underutilization of capacity. These and other features of Russia's economy are explained by an international team of expert authors in the most comprehensive and objective overview of the subject to date.

Swords into Market Shares: Technology, Security, and Economics in the New Russia

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Recommended for students of contemporary Russian society
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Swords into Market Shares: Technology, Security, and Economics in the New Russia
Glenn E. Schweitzer , and a Joseph Henry Press book
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ASIN: 030906841X

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In Swords into Market Shares, Glenn Schweitzer examines the prospects for Russia to prosper from its technology in the post-Soviet world. He explores the different visions of prosperity held by entrepreneurs, technologists, and government officials and goes on to examine the barriers to progress as Russia struggles to build a viable technology industry on its own terms. Schweitzer looks at the impact of the Soviet legacy--central planning, lack of priorities, scant incentives for personal initiative--and the aftermath of the Russian financial meltdown of 1998. He also reviews the experiences of American companies that have invested in Russian technology and examines the results of pressure to reform according to the economic model of the West. Schweitzer goes on to document the problems of economic crime and government corruption, which plague activities designed to generate income in Russia. He discusses the lack of protection for intellectual property and taxation issues that stand in the way of technological innovation.

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Recommended for students of contemporary Russian society.......2001-03-19

Swords Into Market Shares: Technology, Economics, And Security In The New Russia is an invaluable and authoritative examination of the problems Russia is experiencing as it tries to transform from an economic system of centrally controlled economic despotism to one of private enterprise based, technologically impacted system of production, distribution, and consumption. This transformation has resulted in catastrophic and often unintended consequences. Glenn Schweitzer surveys the different visions of prosperity held by Russian entrepreneurs, technologists, and government officials, Russia's economy and its research and development infrastructure, and the impact of the Soviet Legacy that continues to complicate and impede Russian economic and financial recovery. Swords Into Market Shares is highly instructive and recommended reading for students of contemporary Russian society, economic conditions, and international relations.

Recommended for students of contemporary Russian society.......2001-03-19

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This book addresses three major questions about law and legal systems: (1) What are the defining and organizing forms of legal institutions, legal rules, interpretive methodologies, and other legal phenomena? (2) How does frontal and systematic focus on these forms advance understanding of such phenomena? (3) What credit should the functions of forms have when such phenomena serve policy and related purposes, rule of law values, and fundamental political values such as democracy, liberty, and justice? The answers not only provide articulate conversancy with the subject but also reveal insights into the nature of law itself, as well as allied subjects.

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The authors of this monograph take a hard look at the complicated issue of perishable-crop agriculture and its workforce. They offer a number of suggestions for retaining the robust competitiveness of the industry while dramatically improving the working conditions of those whose labor is an important factor in its success. Among their recommendations are ways to guarantee the agriculture sector a legal supply of labor in return for improved conditions for those workers.

International Migration Series

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This book presents a summary of the application and instrumentation of cell electrophoresis. The method of making cell purification and characterization possible according to the cellular negative surface charge density is discussed, and ideas for future developments are explained. The negative electrostatic forces at cell surfaces provide information about cell-cell interaction, blood vessel sealing, cytokine actions, cell transformation, ion transport phenomena, and other biological phenomena. Recalculations of the physical principles of cell electrophoresis reveal possibilities for removing disruptive factors caused by electrical current, heat, and sedimentation. The introduction of computer technology, the performance of simultaneous two-parameter measurements, and the application of cell-friendly but current-inert buffer systems render the method more reliable and efficient.

Cell electrophoresis: Clinical application and methodology : proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Cell Electrophoresis, Clinical Applications, ... 12-15 June 1979 (Inserm symposium ; no. 11)

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Cell electrophoresis: Clinical application and methodology : proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Cell Electrophoresis, Clinical Applications, ... 12-15 June 1979 (Inserm symposium ; no. 11)

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Cell Electrophoresis: Proceedings of the International Meeting, Rostock, German Democratic Republic, September 24-28, 1984

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Cell Electrophoresis: Proceedings of the International Meeting, Rostock, German Democratic Republic, September 24-28, 1984
W. Schutt
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Electrophoresis of Large DNA Molecules: Theory and Applications (Current Communications in Cell and Molecular Biology) (Current Communications in Cell and Molecular Biology)

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Electrophoresis of proteins and the chemistry of cell surfaces,
Harold Alexander Abramson
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Assessment of DNA damage in glue sniffers by use of the alkaline comet assay [An article from: Mut.Res.-Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis]

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Assessment of DNA damage in glue sniffers by use of the alkaline comet assay [An article from: Mut.Res.-Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis]
I. Cok , S. Sardas , E. Kadioglu , and E. Ozcagli
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Toluene is used widely, not only in industry, but also in households where toluene exposure and abuse can occur. To estimate the genotoxic risk of toluene exposure, DNA damage was determined in peripheral lymphocytes of 20 glue sniffers and 20 age-matched controls by use of the alkaline comet assay. Urinary hippuric acid and o-cresol excretion rates, which are used as a marker for toluene exposure, were also measured in sniffers and compared with historical control values. The increase in genetic damage in sniffers was statistically significant as compared to control subjects (P <0.0001). The mean values of the hippuric acid and o-cresol excretion rate for glue sniffers was 73- and 1582-fold higher, respectively, than in controls and confirms the putative exposure. Education of the general public and efforts to keep adolescents away from volatile solvent-based products, which may lead to a desire of sniffing in the future, would be advisable.

Assessment of the pharmacological effect of silymarin on ethanol-induced DNA damage by single-cell gel electrophoresis.(Rapid Communication): An article from: Indian Journal of Pharmacology

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Assessment of the pharmacological effect of silymarin on ethanol-induced DNA damage by single-cell gel electrophoresis.(Rapid Communication): An article from: Indian Journal of Pharmacology
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Cadmium induces DNA damage in tobacco roots, but no DNA damage, somatic mutations or homologous recombination in tobacco leaves [An article from: Mut.Res.-Genetic ... Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis]

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Cadmium induces DNA damage in tobacco roots, but no DNA damage, somatic mutations or homologous recombination in tobacco leaves [An article from: Mut.Res.-Genetic ... Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis]
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The heavy metal cadmium (Cd^2^+) applied on tobacco roots in the form of cadmium chloride, induced significantly higher levels of DNA damage as measured by the cellular Comet assay than did treatment of isolated root nuclei, analyzed by use of the acellular Comet assay. DNA damage induced by Cd^2^+ in roots of a transgenic catalase-deficient tobacco line (CAT1AS) was higher than in wild-type tobacco (SR1) roots. In contrast to treatment with the positive control ethyl methanesulphonate, Cd^2^+ induced no significant DNA damage in leaf nuclei, and neither somatic mutations, nor homologous recombination as measured by the GUS genereactivation assay, were observed in leaves. Analysis of the accumulation of cadmium by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry demonstrates that roots accumulate almost 50-fold more cadmium than above-ground parts of the tobacco seedlings. This may explain the absence of Cd^2^+ genotoxicity in leaves.

Cell Electrophoresis: Proceedings of the International Meeting Rostock, German Democratic Republic, Sept. 24-28, 1984

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Coupling chemiluminescence with capillary electrophoresis to analyze single human red blood cells [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]

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Coupling chemiluminescence with capillary electrophoresis to analyze single human red blood cells [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]
Q. Zhi , C. Xie , X. Huang , and J. Ren
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This digital document is a journal article from Analytica Chimica Acta, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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In this paper, we describe a new method for determination of hemoglobin of single red blood cells by coupling chemiluminescence with capillary electrophoresis (CL-CE). The chemiluminescent detection is based on the catalytic effects of hemoglobin on the luminol-hydrogen peroxide reaction. The conditions of chemiluminescent reaction and capillary electrophoresis were investigated. Hemoglobin in human blood samples was detected with the present method, the linear range from 1.7@mgmL^-^1 to 6.8@mgmL^-^1 was tested, and the correlation coefficient of 0.997 and low detection limit of 0.17@mgmL^-^1 (approximately 2.2pg, S/N=3) were obtained. Cell injection procedure was improved, and the method was successfully used to determine hemoglobin of single red blood cells and the statistical result of the average content of hemoglobin in 26 human red blood cells was 23.6pg. Compared to other current methods, CE with CL system is simple, sensitive and will become an attractive alternative method for single cell analysis.

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This book is the most comprehensive compilation of data on the optical properties of diamond ever written. The handbook presents for the first time in English a multitude of data on the optics of diamond which were previously published only in Russian and which were never known to western researchers. The author presents his own views alongside the opinions of other researchers, even in cases where these are contradictory. The main benefit derived from this handbook is a quick access to the most comprehensive information on all aspects of the optical properties of diamond.

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Margaret Cavendish was one of the most subversive and entertaining writers of the seventeenth century. She invented new genres, challenged gender roles, and critiqued the new science as well as the mores of society. "Paper Bodies" was the wonderful phrase she used to described her manuscripts, which she hoped would continue to make "a great Blazing Light" after her death. There are connections here to Cavendish's most famous work, The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World (1666), a unique tale of a woman travelling through the north pole to a strange new world.

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This digital document is an article from Utopian Studies, published by Society for Utopian Studies on March 22, 2000. The length of the article is 954 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader.(Review) (book review)
Author: Nicole Pohl
Publication: Utopian Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2000
Publisher: Society for Utopian Studies
Volume: 11 Issue: 2 Page: 231

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