Rethinking the Post Soviet Experience - Markets, Moral Economies Cultural Contradictions of Post Socialist

In this unique contribution to economic sociology, Jeffrey Hass examines the impact of culture, norms and political authority on Russia's post-socialist transition. The interactions and contradictions of moral economies and market relations are examined, exploring the often overlooked social dimension to market-building in Russia.

List of contents

Introduction Culture and Post-Socialism: The Moral Economy of Market Building PART I: VOICES FROM BELOW: MORAL AND MARKET ECONOMIES AT PLAY Moral versus Market Economies: Remaking the Post-Soviet Firm Moral and Market Economies Meet: Remaking Exchange PART II: RETHINKING NARRATIVES OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF CAPITALISM Contradictions of Post-Socialist Value: Moral Economy of Money A Tsar is Born? A Moral Economy of the Post-Soviet State Rethinking the Post-Soviet Experience Twenty Years On

About the author

JEFFREY HASS Associate Professor in sociology at the University of Richmond, Virginia, USA. He studies and teaches social change, political and economic sociology, post-socialism, culture, power and social theory in Russia and Europe. He has published several works on post-socialism and economic change and is currently examining norms and practices of wartime survival during the Blockade of Leningrad in World War II.

Summary

In this unique contribution to economic sociology, Jeffrey Hass examines the impact of culture, norms and political authority on Russia's post-socialist transition. The interactions and contradictions of moral economies and market relations are examined, exploring the often overlooked social dimension to market-building in Russia.

Product details

• Authors: J Hass, J. Hass, Jeffrey K. Hass
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349329823
• ISBN: 978-1-349-32982-3
• No. of pages: 295
• Series: Euro-Asian Studies; Euro-Asian Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Politics and business; B, Sociology, Economic Policy, Political Sociology, macroeconomics, Economic history, Politics & government, Political Economy, Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Monetary Economics, Management science, International Political Economy, Development Economics, Development economics & emerging economies, Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, International Political Economy’, capitalism;money;transition