Invisible Hands, Russian Experience, and Social Science: Approaches to Understanding Systemic Failure

by Stefan Hedlund

Book Overview

This book investigates cases in which national and international activities have gone massively wrong, entailing seriously negative consequences, and in which the sophisticated analytical models of social science have ceased to be helpful. Illustrations range from the global financial crisis to the failure to achieve speedy systemic change in the former Soviet Union and the failure to achieve development in the Third World. The analysis uses as a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107627818
• ISBN13: 9781107627819
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"