Stiglitz J. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

The lack in a society of necessary financial and legal institutions, which provide a privatization to be effective, is considered in the paper as one of major factors explaining a unsatisfactory economic results of Russian transition period. The second important factor, as is shown in the paper, is connected to the inadequate theoretical concept of firm, on which the ideology of reforms based. This concept  represents firm as full property of the major shareholders under weak influence on activity of firm of other contributors.


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