Russia
A resource economy in which property rights are contingent on political favour; the literature is largely about how assets were acquired in the 1990s and reallocated after 2000, which is what any investor needs to understand.
6 books · 1 people behind it
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- Red NoticeBill Browder, 2015
- Sale of the CenturyChrystia Freeland, 2000
- Putin's PeopleCatherine Belton, 2020
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Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Academics 1
Books 6
Chrystia Freeland · 2000 · Loans-for-shares and the privatisation that created the oligarchs.
David E. Hoffman · 2002 · Six men and the mechanics of how post-Soviet wealth was assembled.
T2 Red Notice
Bill Browder · 2015 · Insider account by the largest foreign portfolio investor of the era, and its end.
Catherine Belton · 2020 · The KGB network's recapture of the commanding heights.
Paul Klebnikov · 2000 · Berezovsky and the looting of the Yeltsin state; the author was later murdered.
Anders Aslund · 2019 · How the rent-extraction system is organised under Putin.