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Neoliberalism and the Law in Post Communist Transition The Evolving Role of Law in Russia’s Transition to Capitalism
By Ioannis Glinavos
Copyright 2010
228 Pages
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Routledge
232 Pages
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Routledge
232 Pages
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Routledge
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This work examines ideas about the role of law and legal reform in the creation of market economies, focusing on the process of post communist transition in Russia. Processes of transition in Russia were guided by a set of very specific neoliberal ideas about the nature of markets and capitalism, about the role of law and the primacy of the economic over the legal and political. These ideas... Read more
1. Markets and Law 2. The Command Economy 3. Instant Capitalism 4. Responses to Instant Capitalism 5. Second Stage Reforms 6. Neoliberalism Revisited
Biography
Ioannis Glinavos is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster, UK.
"The author has written a passionate critique on neoliberalism, and his analyses of the treatment of the rule of law in the discussions on reform—in Russia and elsewhere—are well worth reading; his conclusions that one cannot dismiss politics and law from economic policy, and that distribution issues matter, are convincing." Joop de Kort, Review of Central and East European Law 36 (2011)
