“How the Import of Modern Western Institutions Suppress Economic Growth: 1990-ties East-West and West-East Transition” – it is a working name of the book (in Russian original: “Institucionalnye ogranichenia sovremenogo ekonomicheskogo rosta” – Institutional Constraints on Modern Economic Growth – “Delo” Publishing House Moscow, 2011). The book is in translation currently.
The book structure and a short description of the chapters’ content you could find in the introductory paper The Guide to the Book ‘Institutional Constraints on Modern Economic Growth‘ (full content).
The “sample” of the translated chapters unedited translation is already downloadable:
Chapter 2 The Crooked Mirror: Could Private Property Be Safe When Media is Biased?
Chapter 3 Modern Robbers: Special Interest Groups and Braking the Economic Growth
Chapter 7 Immigration: Choosing an Adaptation Strategy
Chapter 8 Authoritarianism and Chinese ‘Success Story’
Chapter 9 Modern Anti-Capitalistic Ideologies
Chapter 10 The Democracy Abridged: Factors in Restricting Political Competition
Chapter 12 ‘Old Testament’ Morality and the ‘Traditional’ Family
Chapter 13. Rebuilding the Democracy of the Taxpayer
Additional materials for the Book 2nd edition and for English edition as well
1. Annex to Chapter 13: How safe is it, to confuse Defense with Care? Concerning the Compatibility of Quantitatively Significant Spending on “Butter” and Qualitative – on “Guns” report
Data for statistical analysis and more:
Four Democratic Powers panel data USA time series
Israel time series Israel Parliament elections history
2. Annex to Chapter 13: “Democracy of “Taxation-Redistribution” and Peacetime Budget Deficit”
3. Annex to the Chapter 11: Crisis of the Institution of the Family: Causes of the Illness and Its Remedies: report “The Gender Role of the Government. Some explanations of Family crisis“
Selected data for statistical analysis.
Marital Rape spread and Economic Freedom in the World, some related data
English by Elen Rochlin
Critics and comments are welcomed.