The Role of Informal Economies in the Post-Soviet World: The End of Transition?

ISBN-13: 9780415567213 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 244 str.

Peter Rodgers

Opis

Based on extensive ethnographic and quantitative research, this book shows that the economies that operate across post-Soviet spaces are far from the textbook idea of a market economy. This book challenges the accepted notion that the transition from the command economy to market-based systems is complete across the post-Soviet space.

Recenzje

"The authors challenge the very notion of market transition as that of moving from command and control plan-based economy to a market one. Instead, they offer a true mosaic of post-Soviet transformation, a largely incomplete and frequently confusing multifaceted non-linear process...I strongly encourage everyone interested in post- Soviet transformations to read this book. A landmark work on informal economies, it offers a totally new perspective on economies in transition. Moreover, it serves as a methodological sample work for similar possible future studies of socio-economic transformations in different parts of the world. This brilliant work that proves that the adjective ‘ethnographic’ is directly related to another adjective ‘economic’, may be regarded as nothing less than an alternative and insightful interpretation of post-Soviet transformation." - Ararat L. Osipian, Vanderbilt University

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Part I (Re)theorising Transition Economies  2. Re-visiting the recurring question of transition  3. Re-theorising the economic  4. Beyond the formal/informal economy dualism: unpacking the diverse economies of post-Soviet societies  Part II The Lived Experience of Transition  5. The role of the informal in the formal sphere  6. Informal employment  7. One-to-one unpaid labour, reimbursed family work and paid favours  8. Formal and informal unpaid employment  9. The internal economies of the household  10. Conclusions