Les critiques du choix de la thérapie de choc

Jacques Fontanel () and Ivan Samson
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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
Ivan Samson: UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2

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Abstract: Russian economists were initially in favour of a gradual move from a planned economy to a market economy. Under the influence of the International Monetary Fund and Western experts, the transition was accelerated by the so-called "shock therapy" policy, on the one hand to make the process irreversible by reducing the authoritarian role of the state, and on the other hand by the blind trust in the quasi-automatic regulatory qualities of the market economy. Many economists, however, have called for the maintenance of a regal power capable of safeguarding the collective interests of citizens and the indispensable role of public authorities in the regulation and orientation of the national economy. Russia has had to face a double transition, from a highly militarised economy to a competitive one for which it was not well prepared. The conversion of the arms industries made many investments obsolete. Shock therapy has caused considerable economic and social damage, with the absence of necessary public investment, and cuts in health and education spending.

Keywords: Shock therapy; Russia; Russian capitalism; Arms industry; Conversion; Thérapie de choc; Russie; Capitalisme russe; Industrie d’armement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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Published in Jacques Fontanel; Ivan Samson. Les liaisons dangereuses entre l'État et l'économie russes, l'Harmattan, pp.36-51, 2003, Pour comprendre, 2-7475-4451-6

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