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More frustrating for the reader is that the book is really a collection of papers Schliefer wrote between 1993 and 2005, with an introduction and a conclusion thrown on the ends. And it feels like a collection of papers, not a unified whole. A chapter on the unofficial economy in 1997 is followed by a chapter on legal reform in 1996, which is followed by a chapter comparing federalism in China and Russia in 2001. Each chapter does well on its own, but Shleifer does not convince the reader that one has to slog through all of them to fully...

Author: By Stephen W. Stromberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BOOKENDS: Ec Prof’s Defense of Shock Therapy May Send Jolt to Kremlinologists | 4/27/2005 | See Source »

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