This book starts with the experience of Russia since the end of central planning. It covers the great contraction of 1992-98 and the subsequent recovery in 1999-2006. It offers and empirically supports a uniform explanation of both the contraction and the recovery. It views Russia’s economy as a new economic system that evolved from central planning after liberalization and privatization in 1992 and adapted to the policy shift in late 1998. Russia inherited the entire array of enterprises from central planning where they formed a unified assembly line, a veritable nation-enterprise. With few newfangled enterprises, unlike China, these inherited enterprises evolved by default into a ubiquitous network, akin to a vertically integrated super-cartel. The inherited enterprise network was able to extract massive subsidies from the government and the public and redistribute national income. We call this new economic system Enterprise Network Socialism.

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• Preface (predation_preface.pdf ~15 KB)
• Chapter 1. Free and Not So Free to Charge: Income Redistribution and Russia's GDP Contraction, 1992-98, and Recovery, 1999-2007 (Chapter_1_Consolidated_2008_Income_Redistribution_and_Russia.pdf ~1389 KB)
• Chapter 2. Paradigm Lost, Paradigm Regained: Common Versus Private Income (predation_chapter2.pdf ~348 KB)
• Chapter 3. The Omnipresence of Common Income in a Multi-Dimensional World
  Section A. Charting a Multi-Dimensional World (predation_chapter3A.pdf ~3015 KB)
• Chapter 3. The Omnipresence of Common Income in a Multi-Dimensional World
  Section B: Patterns of Multi-Dimensional Heterogeneity (predation_chapter3B.pdf ~2851 KB)
• Annex 3.1. The Two-dimensional Table of Economic Species (predation_annex3-1.pdf ~238 KB)
• Annex 3.2. The Four-dimensional Table of Economic Species (predation_annex3-2.pdf ~105 KB)
• Annex 3.3. Four-dimensional Heterogeneity of Economic Species (predation_annex3-3.pdf ~93 KB)
• Chapter 4. The Evolution of Private Income: A Few Sketches and Approximations (predation_chapter4.pdf ~126 KB)
• Addendum to Chapter 4. Fixing China's Banks, Not Russia's (predation_chapter4add.pdf ~338 KB)
• Chapter 5. The Taxonomy of Common Income (Section A) (predation_chapter5.pdf ~137 KB)
• About the Authors (predation_authors.pdf ~28 KB)