The Russian Economy
Fall 2004
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Instructor: Malik Shukayev |
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E-mail: maliksh@econ.umn.edu |
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Phone: (612) 624-8383 |
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Office: Heller Hall 1212 |
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Office hours: Monday 10-11 am, Thursday 4-5 pm, or by appointment |
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Syllabus |
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Announcements |
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Essay Assignments |
Essay 1 due by noon on Monday Sep. 20
Answer Key to Essay 1
Essay 2 due by noon on Monday Oct. 4
Answer Key to Essay 2
Input-output analysis exercise, due on Friday Oct. 15
Input-output analysis, Answer Key
Essay 3 due by noon on Monday Nov. 8
Essay 4 due by noon on Monday Nov. 22
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Presentations |
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Quizzes |
Quiz 1 will take place on Wednesday Sep. 22
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Exams |
FINAL IS ON MONDAY DECEMBER 20, 10:30am-12:30pm in Blegen 205
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Handouts |
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Articles |
- Chapter 1. The Other Government: An Introduction to the Missing Facts
- Click on the first chapter from the book "From Predation to Prosperity: Breaking up
- Enterprise Network Socialism in Russia" by M. Bernstam and A. Rabushka.
- Economics Education and Research Consortium
- Papers by Russian Economists (both in Russian and in English), useful links and resources.
- "Russian Dilemmas" by A. Leijonhufvud, and C. Ruhl
- "Some Economic and Social Consequences of Russian Communism" by C.B. Hoover
- "Explaining Russian Output Collapse:...", by I. Dolinskaya
- "Pension Reform in the Baltics, Russia, ... ", by M. Castello
- "Privatization is Transition - Or Is It?", by Josef C. Brada
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Internet Resources |
- The Russian Economy
- Very useful links to Russian and international agencies
- Russian and Soviet Union History Timeline
Commanding Heights movie on PBS
Maps of Russia, USSR and other countries
- Russia Today
- Great resource! A lot of information and link directories.
- Altavista Text query for Altavista search, no heavy-weighted graphics.
- Google Excellent search engine
- USSR growth data
- The Central Bank of Russia
- The Russian Statistical Agency, English version
- The CIA Look for their World Factbook publications.
- U.S. Department of State
- Background information on Russia and USSR (and other countries), the history of Russia.
- World Bank
- IMF
- These two international organizations publish a lot of periodicals on economic and
- development issues across the world. In particular, for Macro and Monetary Data
- check the International Financial Statistics published by IMF.
- Kazakhstan, Russian and other news in English
- The Moscow Times
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