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Jacques Fontanel () and Natacha Bourova
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Jacques Fontanel: CESICE - Centre d'études sur la sécurité internationale et les coopérations européennes - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble
Natacha Bourova: UNECON - Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics (.)

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Abstract: The issue of the underground economy is not always well developed in economic analyses. In an economic system with changing and uncertain social relations, the underground economy benefits from fertile ground for its development. It is transformed into a structured social system that reproduces itself. It has its own organization and a certain social recognition. It includes illicit activities (theft, racketeering), informal norms of behaviour (false invoices, tax evasion, "black" wages), active or passive forms of corruption (protection of businessmen by the national police or advice from tax inspectors to companies), and the growth of activities at the limit of the law concerning new regulations, especially monetary ones. Some economists believe that the informal economy is a lubricant for the economy, while others condemn it in the name of fair competition and the rejection of all illegal activities.

Keywords: Russia; Underground economy; Économie souterraine; Russie (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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Published in Jacques Fontanel; Liliane Bensahel. L'économie souterraine : l'exemple de la Russie, l'Harmattan, pp.11-16, 2006, Les Idées et les théories à l'épreuve des faits, 2-296-00348-6

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