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Author: Anthony Jones Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253331359 Category : Cooperative societies Languages : en Pages : 180
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Cooperatives were the initial stage in prestroika's projected move to a market-oriented economy under Mikhail Gorbachev. The authors chronicle the emergence and experience of the Soviet cooperatives, their successes and failures, and the relationship between entrepreneurship and prospects for transition to a market economy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Anthony Jones Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253331359 Category : Cooperative societies Languages : en Pages : 180
Book Description
Cooperatives were the initial stage in prestroika's projected move to a market-oriented economy under Mikhail Gorbachev. The authors chronicle the emergence and experience of the Soviet cooperatives, their successes and failures, and the relationship between entrepreneurship and prospects for transition to a market economy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Yakov Feygin Publisher: Harvard University Press - T ISBN: 0674240995 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 289
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Yakov Feygin argues that Soviet decline owes much to internal tensions over economic reform. Focused on socioeconomic competition with the West, Khrushchev and his successors sought to build a consumer society but had only Stalinist institutions of mass mobilization to work with, resulting in unresolvable contradiction and eventual sclerosis.
Author: Juliet Johnson Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501731319 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 265
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After the breakup of the USSR, it briefly appeared as though Russia's emerging commercial banks might act as engines of growth for a new capitalist economy. However, despite more than a decade of "reforms," Russia's financial system collapsed in 1998. Why had ambitious efforts to decentralize and liberalize the banking industry failed? In A Fistful of Rubles, Juliet Johnson offers the first comprehensive look at how Russia's banks, once expected to revitalize the nation's economy, instead became one of the largest obstacles to its recovery.Drawing on interviews with Russian bankers, policymakers, and entrepreneurs, Johnson traces the evolution of the banking system from 1987 through the aftermath of the 1998 crash. She describes how dysfunctional institutional procedures left over from the Soviet period hindered the subsequent development of sound financial practices. Johnson argues that these legacies, along with misguided, Western-inspired liberalization policies, led to the creation of parasitic banks for which success depended on political connections rather than on investment strategies. Johnson demonstrates that banking reform efforts ultimately did more harm than good, because Russian officials and their international advisers failed to build the corresponding economic, legal, and political institutions upon which modern market behavior depends.
Author: Joshua Calhoun Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812296745 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 224
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An innovative study of books and reading that focuses on papermaking in the Renaissance In The Nature of the Page, Joshua Calhoun tells the story of handmade paper in Renaissance England and beyond. For most of the history of printing, paper was made primarily from recycled rags, so this is a story about using old clothes to tell new stories, about plants used to make clothes, and about plants that frustrated papermakers' best attempts to replace scarce natural resources with abundant ones. Because plants, like humans, are susceptible to the ravages of time, it is also a story of corruption and the hope that we can preserve the things we love from decay. Combining environmental and bibliographical research with deft literary analysis, Calhoun reveals how much we have left to discover in familiar texts. He describes the transformation of plant material into a sheet of paper, details how ecological availability or scarcity influenced literary output in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and examines the impact of the various colors and qualities of paper on early modern reading practices. Through a discussion of sizing—the mixture used to coat the surface of paper so that ink would not blot into its fibers—he reveals a surprising textual interaction between animals and readers. He shows how we might read an indistinct stain on the page of an early modern book to better understand the mixed media surfaces on which readers, writers, and printers recorded and revised history. Lastly, Calhoun considers how early modern writers imagined paper decay and how modern scholars grapple with biodeterioration today. Exploring the poetic interplay between human ideas and the plant, animal, and mineral forms through which they are mediated, The Nature of the Page prompts readers to reconsider the role of the natural world in everything from old books to new smartphones.
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