Economics of Soviet Breakup

Informationen zum Autor Bert van Selm is a Lecturer at the Institute of East European Law and Russian Studies, University of Leiden. He has written numerous journal articles on the economics of the Soviet break-up, and has travelled widely through the former USSR. Klappentext This book analyzes the effects of the break-up of the Soviet Union into fifteen independent states. Topics discussed include: * past and present economic relations between the republics, and forecasts for the future * discussion of Customs Unions, Monetary Union or Payments Union as possible ways forward for these states * economic integration theory * how the states of the Soviet Union functioned before the dissolution. Zusammenfassung Before 1991 little was known of the individual states that made up the USSR. Here the effects of the break-up of the Soviet Union on the identities of the fifteen independent states are analyzed. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction and Overview 2. The Economics of Soviet Break-up 3. The Soviet Union 1922-91 4. Former Soviet Republics' Economic Interdependence 5. Gravity Model of the Former Soviet Union 6. The Soviet Union as a Customs and Monetary Union 7. The Soviet Union as a Payments Union 8. The Soviet Union as a Redistributor 9. The Newly Independent States in Transition 10. Conclusion: Economic Relations among ex-USSR republics then, now, and later 11. References 12. Index

Product details

• Authors: B. van Selm, Bert van Selm, SELM BERT VAN, B. Van Selm, Bert van Selm, Bert (International Monetary Fund Van Selm
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.1997
• EAN: 9780415148320
• ISBN: 978-0-415-14832-0
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Routledge Studies of Societies; Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition; Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; History, Media Studies, Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, Humanities, International Economics