Předmět Economic transformation in the post-Soviet area (JMM188)

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Sylabus

Presentations, course introduction, basic terms.Command economy, its functioning. Planning and its deficiencies, Innovations, Pricing system. Reforming of the economies. What were the systemic and what were the changeable features of the regime? Why did all the efforts to change the system fail?Kornai, János, From Socialism to Capitalism : Eight Essays, chapter 1, The Coherence of the Classical SystemMark Harrison, Economic Growth and Slowdown in Brezhnev Reconsidered, 38-67. Edited by Edwin Bacon and Mark Sandle. London and Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002,  http://www.researchgate.net/publication/228514427_Economic_growth_and_slowdown/file/60b7d52a9d3cb48856.pdfperestroika - reform plans. Was the fall of the Soviet Union inevitable? Was it caused only by the economic affairs? What were the true consequences, results?Aslund, Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed, chapters 1-2. post-Soviet transformation - approaches, typologies. Andreas Pickel (1997) Neoliberalism, gradualism and some typical ambiguities and confusions in the transformation debate, New Political Economy, 2:2, 221-235shock therapy, Liberalization, Privatization, StabilizationJohn Williamson, Washington Consensus as Policy Prescription for Development,  https://www.piie.com/publications/papers/williamson0204.pdfstate captureoligarchic stateAndrei Yakovlev (2006) The evolution of business - state interaction in Russia: From state capture to business capture?, Europe-Asia Studies, 58:7, 1033-1056.What regimes were established in 1990s?politics and economy in 1990s.  Midterm - based on readings + classes.Authoritarianism in the CIS, Belarus as an alternative model for post-Soviet development? Viachaslau Yarashevich (2014) Political Economy of Modern Belarus: Going Against Mainstream?, Europe-Asia Studies, 66:10, 1703-17341998 - problems and consequencesRussia’s default and the effects on the post-Soviet spaceBrian Pinto, Sergei Ulatov, Financial Globalization and the Russian Crisis of 1998, Policy Research Working Paper 5312, https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/3797/WPS5312.pdf?sequence=1Economic integration in the CIS - uniting or disuniting? WTO, Russian-Belarusian Union etc.Molly O’Neal (2014): Russia in WTO: interests, policy autonomy, and deliberations, Eurasian Geography and EconomicsWorld financial crisis in the CIS David Lane (2011) The Impact of Economic Crisis: Russia, Belarus and Ukraine in Comparative Perspective, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 27:3-4, 587-604.Evgeny Vinokurov & Alexander Libman (2014) Do economic crises impede or advance regional economic integration in the post-Soviet space?, Post-Communist Economies, 26:3, 341-358.

Literatura

1. Myant M.; Drahokoupil J., Transition Economies: Political Economy in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 2. Aslund A., Russia's capitalist revolution: why market reform succeeded and democracy failed?, Washington : Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2007. 3. Goldman M., The piratization of Russia : Russian reform goes awry, London : Routledge, 2003. 4. Tompson, W., Ahrend, R., Fifteen years of economic reforms in Russia: What has been achieved, what remains to be done? 5. Aslund A., How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy, Washington : Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2008. 6. Konoczuk W., The failure of integration. The CIS and other international organisations in the post-Soviet area 1991-2006, OSW, Warsawa 2007. 7. Chubrik A. , Haiduk K., Pelipas I., Growth for All? Economy of Belarus: Challenges ahead, Minsk 2007, http://research.by/pdf/growthforall2007en.pdf. 8. Sutela P., Russian market Economy, Alexanteri Institute, Helsinki, 2003. 9. Aslund A., How capitalism was built : the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007. 10. Schleifer A., Treisman D., A normal country, October 2003, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=460920. !!. Daniel Gros, Alfred Steinherr, Economic Transition in Central and Eastern Europe, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Požadavky

Requirements:Activity in the classbased on assigned readings,meaningful participation (commentaries, questions) in discussion following your colleagues’ presentations, minimum attendance - 70 % (9 seminars) Midterm: test based on readings and class work.  Final test: similar to the midterm (based on the readings and classes during the whole term) 24 hours paper 6300-9000 characters long (including spaces)24 hours for completing the answer Assessment:20% Midterm10 % activity in the class (class reading)30 % final test 40 % 24 hours paper 1 (A) 100 - 91%2 (B) 90 - 75%3 (C) 74 - 60%4 (F) less than 60% Note on plagiarism: Students should follow the rules of academic conduct. Any instance of plagiarism will be immediately delivered to the Disciplinary commission for further decision. Please, consult any uncertainties with the lecturer before you submit your paper.  

Garant

Mgr. Karel Svoboda, Ph.D.