The Road to the Market

5 hrs. 43 min.

Business & Personal Development

Language Russian

Author Sergey Guriev

Narrators Sergey Guriev, Dmitriy Zimin, Evgeny Chichvarkin

Narrator Sergey Guriev

Narrator Dmitriy Zimin

Narrator Evgeny Chichvarkin

Description

One of the most significant gaps in today’s Russian intellectual landscape is the absence of economic history. Meanwhile, economic history is a key not only to understanding the economy of today, but also the social reality around us.

The course by one of Russia’s best-known economists, Sergey Guriev, “Road to the Market. The Economic Life of Post-Soviet Russia,” explains how the modern Russian economy was created—its architects and the major events that have already been forgotten and grown over with mythology. What were the economic reforms? How were Russian companies, banks, and the tax system formed? How did economic inequality develop and how did billion-dollar fortunes appear?

All of this is discussed in the course, and you need to know it in order to understand how to change the current rules of the game.

Lectures:

1 A report on the lost and the found
2 The Soviet foundation
3 The Gaidar reforms
4 The price of any question
5 Dmitry Zimin: “It was fantastically exciting. That’s the main thing”
6 The big privatization
7 Credit history
8 Open trading
9 Evgeny Chichvarkin: “Retail was a huge social elevator”
10 The depths and the storehouses
11 Demyan Kudryavtsev: “The oligarchs of the first wave replaced institutions”
12 The Battle of the City
13 A firm hand
14 Oleg Vyugin: “No oligarchs and no democracy—lean on bureaucracy”
15 Ella Panyakh: “Russian business constantly goes under the prosecutor”
16 Rules of the game
17 Monetarist ministers
18 The welfare state
19 Vladimir Gimpelson: “Economists usually only dream of this kind of flexibility”
20 Happiness is not in numbers
21 Evgeny Yasin: “The middle class needs convincing changes”