How Capitalism Was Built: The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia

by Anders Easlund and Anders Åslund

Book Overview

Anders Aslund is known to make bold predictions that initially arouse controversy but soon become common wisdom. In Gorbachev's Struggle for Economic Reform (1989), he foresaw the collapse of the Soviet political and economic system. After Russia's financial crisis of 1998, observers declared the market economic experiment a failure, Aslund foresaw market economic success (Building Capitalism, 2002). In How Capitalism Was Built, 2nd Edition, he asks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107628180
• ISBN13: 9781107628182
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"